President Donald Trump now has appointed nine members to the Ninth Circuit Court — slashing the majority of Democrat-appointed judges down to just three.
The majority of liberal judges on the Ninth Circuit Court was at 11 at the start of Trump’s presidency — so this is a dramatic change.
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The Ninth Circuit is known as the most leftist circuit court in the country. Thomas Sowell, the black conservative intellectual, joked in 2003 that “one of these days, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals may declare the Constitution unconstitutional.”
They have blocked President Trump’s “travel ban” at least three times, and this court enforces its will on 20 percent of the American population — something that caused Congress to consider splitting this circuit court up back in 2017.
With the recently confirmed appointments of Lawrence VanDyke and Patrick Bumatay, it looks like the reign of leftist domination over the court is coming to end.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) tweeted that the court is being brought “closer to balance,” and Katie Glenn, the government affairs counsel for Americans United for Life, said that “forum shopping will be less attractive now that you have a basically balanced bench as far as Republican or Democratic nominees.”
The so-called “forum shopping” phenomenon is when leftist activists search around for courts that are the most liberal-leaning to hear their “cases,” and therefore have the best chance of agreeing with them.
Luckily for conservatives, President Trump is not only affecting change on the west coast, but he’s doing so across the leftist and Constitution-hating judicial system.
In the space of only three years, he has appointed 48 judges in the courts of appeals across the country, compared to the 55 that Obama managed during his presidency — at this stage, he had only managed to appoint 24. These are often more important than the judges who sit on the Supreme Court, in terms of the amount of cases they hear that will never come close to reaching the highest court in the land.
President Trump’s agenda of “draining the swamp” absolutely applies to the courts. It’s one piece of the swamp that is practically entirely under his control.
We may not be able to kick out some of the swamp creatures in Congress, who hold the reins of power — but the judicial system is getting the clear-out that it so desperately needs.
This likely will be President Trump’s most long-lasting legacy. The judges he appoints will likely be in their seats for years to come.
Plus, with congressional gridlock only increasing, many more decisions likely will be decided in the courts.
Now is the time to stack them full of people who actually understand the Constitution and the heritage of this country, in our view. Even after he leaves office, the president will keep on winning!
This piece originally appeared in ThePoliticalInsider.com and is used by permission.
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