re: #58 KGxvi

Trump has had 29 appellate court judges confirmed in his first two years. That is basically double the last three presidents in their first two years (Obama had 16, three of which were in December 2010; Bush had 17; Clinton had 19). What’s interesting is the closeness of the votes.

Of Trump’s 29 confirmed appellate court judges, only 12 have received more than 60 votes in the Senate. Only 2 have been unanimously confirmed (90-0 and 91-0, a third was confirmed 95-1). Only one of Obama’s nominees got less than 60 votes; four were confirmed by unanimous consent, one by voice vote, and several with unanimous votes. Only 1 of Bush’s nominees got less than 60 votes, and only one other got less than 85 votes. Of Clinton’s vote, only two didn’t pass on a voice vote - and they both received over 60 votes.

Those numbers are rather staggering.

i realize you said appellate court.

notice the supreme court recent history and see any pattern?
kavanaugh 50-48
gorsuch 54-45
garland
kagan 63-37
sotomayor 63-31
alito 58-42
roberts 78-22
breyer 87-9
ginsburg 96-3
thomas 52-48
souter 90-9
kennedy 97-0
bork 42-58
scalia 98-0

i realize what simple majority means, and that cloture is a joke
still, personally, any vote as close as thomas, gorsuch, kavanaugh, even alito should be a no go

it shows how desperate the in power party is and how actually objectively awful the nominee is