Why is Trump refusing to fill 13 vacancies on DC’s local court?

[Anonymous]

so he can keep complaining about "liberal judges" without doing anything about it. Gotta manufacture outrage.

[Anonymous]

How many of these vacancies predate Trump?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He’s waiting on Senate approval for nominees already in progress. Ask them to hurry up.

Again, that doesn’t stop him from nominating people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He’s waiting on Senate approval for nominees already in progress. Ask them to hurry up.

Again, that doesn’t stop him from nominating people.

I think the issue is that conservative lawyers who would be nominated by Trump don’t want to spend their lives and careers living in DC full-time as a judge. They despise cities, they want their big place in the countryside, and they loath spending the rest of their years in DC as a judge. So they use big cities as a wedge issue to complain about crime and lax judges, but they don’t actually want to put in the work as a judge for the rest of their lifetimes to fix the problem. That’s someone else’s responsibility.

[Anonymous]

It’s better if he doesn’t fill them, given the kind of people he nominates.