President Donald J. Trump Is Appointing a Historic Number of Federal Judges to Uphold Our Constitution as Written

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Issued on: November 6, 2019

Senate Confirms More of Trump’s Pro-Life Judges, 13 More Conservatives Will Join Federal Courts

Though impeachment is the talk of the day, there are good things happening quietly in the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate that will help ensure the future of basic human rights in America.

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On Wednesday, and through the remainder of the week, the Senate is slated to confirm 13 more conservative judicial nominees chosen by President Donald Trump for federal district court positions, according to Slate. A number of the judges have close ties to pro-life organizations.

They include Matthew Walden McFarland, a former member of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group, and the pro-life organization Scioto County Right to Life, according to the report. He currently serves as a state judge in Ohio.

Fellow nominee Anuraag Hari Singhal, a Florida state judge, is a member of the Thomas More Society, a pro-life legal organization, and the Federalist Society, the report states. Singhal also has supported Republican lawmakers in the past.

The Senate confirmed McFarland by a 56-38 vote, primarily along party lines, Wednesday. Senators voted to cut off debate, or invoke cloture, on the Singhal nomination as well.

Another nominee, Daniel Mack Traynor, of North Dakota, served as a member of the Thomas More Society and the Christian Legal Society, the report continues. He also is involved in the Federalist Society and his state Republican Party.

Nominees Mary Kay Vyskocil, of New York, and Karen Marston, of Pennsylvania, have both been members of the Federalist Society as well.

If the Senate confirms them, as expected, Trump will have appointed 133 conservative judges to federal courts during his time as president, according to Slate.

Pro-life leaders have praised the president for consistently nominating strong judges to federal courts. They include U.S. Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, as well as newly confirmed U.S. District Judge Sarah Pitlyk, a strong human rights advocate and defender of religious freedom.

For decades, abortion activists have relied on liberal judges to keep abortion on demand legal and unrestricted. But the Trump administration is ushering in change that could see human rights restored to unborn babies and religious freedoms for pro-life individuals protected.

Since 1973, 61 million unborn babies have been aborted in America because of Roe v. Wade. The decision made the United States one of only seven countries in the world that allows elective abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

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It is up to us to reclaim our heritage of equal and impartial justice. It is up to us to re-dedicate ourselves to the traditions and wisdom of our Founders.

President Donald J. Trump

HISTORIC RESTORATION OF THE JUDICIARY: President Trump is transforming our judiciary – appointing a historic number of Federal judges who will interpret the Constitution as written.

• Working with the Senate, President Trump has now had 158 judicial nominees confirmed to the Federal bench – a historic transformation of the judiciary.
• President Trump has nominated and had confirmed, two Supreme Court justices, 44 Circuit Court judges, and 112 District Court judges.
• President Trump has appointed more circuit judges by this point in his presidency than any president in recent history.
• Approximately 1 out of every 4 active judges on United States Courts of Appeals has been appointed by President Trump.
• This historic transformation is only accelerating, with President Trump on pace to have more judges confirmed this year than in 2017 and 2018 combined.

RESHAPING THE COURTS FOR YEARS TO COME: The judges appointed by President Trump will make a lasting impact on the courts for decades to come.

• President Trump’s historic appointments have already tipped the balance of numerous Federal courts to a Republican appointed majority.
• This includes flipping the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from a Democrat-appointed majority to a Republican-appointed majority.
• Numerous other Federal courts have been tilted from an even split to a Republican-appointed majority.
• The Second and Eleventh Circuits are likely to flip by the end of this year.
• Progress has been made in reshaping courts that have long been dominated by Democrat-appointed majorities, like the Ninth Circuit.
• Judges appointed by President Trump are expected to give the Nation more than 2,600 years of combined judicial service.
• The average age of circuit judges appointed by President Trump is less than 50 years old – a full 10 years younger than the average age of President Obama’s circuit nominees.

UPHOLDING THE RULE OF LAW: President Trump is fulfilling his promise to appoint judges who will protect and honor the Constitution and the rule of law.

• President Trump is committed to appointing judges who set aside their personal views and political prejudices to do what the Constitution and the law demand.
• This work is especially important due the left-wing’s push to throw away legal precedent and to abandon the Constitution in order to impose its own radical agenda.
• Activist judges have repeatedly used nationwide injunctions to block the policies of the democratically-elected President.
• In some cases, these activist judges have blocked the Administration from simply enforcing the law as written by Congress.
• These nationwide injunctions are a modern invention with no basis in the Constitution.