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30 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
NEW: Check out this great @byMadisonHall story into how one of Trump's most lasting legacies is how he reshaped the federal courts for generations to come. ($) @thisisinsider businessinsider.com/federal-judges…
Database nerds will enjoy the list of every Article III judge in the court system, broken down by which POTUS appointed them.
Every two-term president since Ronald Reagan has appointed at least 320 judges with lifetime appointments, but Trump bucked the trend and installed nearly 70% of that in just one term. In only four years, Trump installed approximately 28% of all the Article III judges.
Also an interesting finding: More than eight-out-of-10 of Trump's appointed judges, many of whom were handpicked from the conservative Federalist Society, are white.

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NEW: How tight is Sen. Chris Coons w/ President Biden? Close enough that Biden summoned him, Sen. Tom Carper, & Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester in early '19 for a Delawareans-only huddle to plot the former VP's next move.

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