Trump’s judicial appointments
Assuming Trump gets to nominate and confirm RBG’s replacement, his judicial appointments will be:
- 3 Supreme Court Justices (out of 9)
- 53 Appellate Court Judges (out of 179)
- 159 District Court Judges (out of 678)
- 22 other judges
He is likely to end up with over 200 district court appointments, but the real impact is the number of Judges to the Appeal Courts as only 2% of their decisions get appealed.
Here’s the list of Presidents who have appointed the most Appellate Judges:
- Reagan 83/8 years
- Clinton 66/8 years
- GW Bush 62/8 years
- Carter 59/4 years
- Obama 55/8 years
- Trump 53/3.5 years
- FDR 51/13 years
- Nixon 51/8 years
So Trump has appointed the most proportional to his time in office.
The leading contenders for the Supreme Court are:
- Amy Comey Barrett, aged 48, 7th circuit
- Barbara Lagoa, aged 52, 11th circuit
- Allison Jones Rushing, aged 38, 4th circuit