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<div class="content-img-wrp"> <div class="content-img"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101im_/http://thehill.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumb_small_article/public/mcconnellmitch_071018gn3_lead.jpg?itok=Zjz12jt0" width="640" height="360" alt="Senate GOP poised to break record on Trump's court picks"/></div><div class="credits">© Greg Nash</div> </div> <div class="content-with-sidebar-wrp"> <div class="content-wrp"> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div>Senate Republicans are poised to break a record as soon as this week on the number of appeals court judges confirmed during a president's first two years. </div><div> </div><div>Majority Leader <span class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople"><a class="rollover-people-link" data-nid="188280" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/people/mitch-mcconnell">Mitch McConnell</a><span class="rollover-people-block" id="rollover-people-188280"><span class="rollover-block"><span><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="/web/20180719000101im_/http://thehill.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumb_100/public/mcconnellmitch_080117gn4_lead.jpg?itok=DftE6aWq" width="100" height="100" alt=""/><a class="name" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/people/mitch-mcconnell">Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnell</a><a class="people-articles" href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/policy/defense/overnights/397554-overnight-defense-trump-tries-to-quell-russia-furor-gop-looks-to">Overnight Defense: Trump tries to quell Russia furor | GOP looks to reassure NATO | Mattis open to meeting Russian counterpart</a> <a class="people-articles" href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/397539-senate-considers-new-russia-response-as-trump-backlash-heats-up">Senate weighs new Russia response amid Trump backlash</a> <a class="people-articles" href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/397528-house-passes-bipartisan-bill-to-boost-business-investment">House passes bipartisan bill to boost business investment</a> <a class="more" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/people/mitch-mcconnell">MORE<span></span></a></span></span></span></span> (R-Ky.) has teed up two circuit court nominations — Andrew Oldham for the 5th Circuit and Ryan Bounds for the 9th Circuit — for Senate votes. </div><div> </div><div>Confirming either would give <span class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople"><a class="rollover-people-link" data-nid="261287" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/people/donald-trump">President Trump</a><span class="rollover-people-block" id="rollover-people-261287"><span class="rollover-block"><span><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="/web/20180719000101im_/http://thehill.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumb_100/public/trumpdonald_070117getty.jpg?itok=JZMvGO3d" width="100" height="100" alt=""/><a class="name" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/people/donald-trump">Donald John Trump</a><a class="people-articles" href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/397573-trump-says-he-doesnt-want-to-use-adversary-to-describe-russia">Trump says he doesn't want to use 'adversary' to describe Russia</a> <a class="people-articles" href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/397572-longtime-republican-comey-urges-americans-to-vote-for-democrats">Comey urges Americans to vote for Democrats in midterms</a> <a class="people-articles" href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/397558-roby-wins-alabama-gop-runoff-overcoming-blowback-from-trump-criticism">Roby wins Alabama GOP runoff, overcoming blowback from Trump criticism</a> <a class="more" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/people/donald-trump">MORE<span></span></a></span></span></span></span> his 23rd appeals court judge — a record for the number of circuit nominees confirmed during a president's first two years in office. </div><div> </div><div>GOP senators have worked frantically to confirm nominees to the key bench, letting the party shape the direction of the U.S. court system for decades. </div><div> </div><div>"I think of the things that we've been able to do with this Republican government the last year and a half, the single most long lasting, positive impact we'll be able to have on the country is the judiciary," McConnell told reporters in Kentucky late last week. </div><div> </div><div><div 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President George H.W. Bush got 22 circuit court nominations through the Senate <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/19930329_93-395_bc6a8821f1e324497acf0ee42c2427292498c113.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/19930329_93-395_bc6a8821f1e324497acf0ee42c2427292498c113.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1531852226514000&usg=AFQjCNFyTEdVsRq7W_JlwoXVH7ojJT8mvA">during his first two years</a>.</div><div><div> </div><div>By comparison, the Senate had confirmed 16 circuit court nominees for Obama by the end of his second year in office, with the final tranche of picks not being confirmed until December of 2010, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/nominations/judicial?c=111" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/nominations/judicial?c%3D111&source=gmail&ust=1531852226515000&usg=AFQjCNGd5-tXOo5gjmqo-LA_M4dn3Lq5Ew">according to the Senate Judiciary Committee</a>.</div><div> </div><div>President George W. Bush got 17 circuit judges confirmed by the end of 2002, his second year in office, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL31868.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL31868.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1531852226515000&usg=AFQjCNFcyj2Zu6S8Ur4rgsVmMkyYVjBSbw">according to the Congressional Research Service</a> (CRS). Clinton had 19 confirmed during his first two years in office, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/19970124_96-567_43ce401464e4c1a1f84b58e36310559323bfaa36.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/19970124_96-567_43ce401464e4c1a1f84b58e36310559323bfaa36.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1531852226515000&usg=AFQjCNHXaEcdocUfBpw6vV-ZgIo7-Z25Dg">according to CRS</a>. And Presidents Reagan and Carter <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/RL31635.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/RL31635.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1531852226515000&usg=AFQjCNFrvUm1TvUammK7CQfhsTU_27WV5g">got 19 and 12 nominees confirmed, respectively</a>. </div><div> </div><div>Republicans haven't taken the same break-neck pace on lower-court district nominees, whose rulings can be overturned at the circuit level. A <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/06/14/are-trumps-judicial-nominees-really-being-confirmed-at-a-record-pace-the-answer-is-complicated/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f6f39b7f3917">Washington Post analysis</a> found that, when combined with votes on lower-level district judges, Trump was lagging behind other recent administration, except Obama, in total number of judges confirmed as of the end of May. </div><div> </div><div>But Republicans have homed in on circuit judge nominations because that court has the final word on a large swatch of cases that never make it to the Supreme Court. </div><div> </div><div>The Supreme Court <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/court-role-and-structure/about-us-courts-appeals" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/court-role-and-structure/about-us-courts-appeals&source=gmail&ust=1531852226515000&usg=AFQjCNEI-ALZQRRMNGEdzFrnNoRRT-zbdA">gets roughly 7,000 requests per year</a>, while circuit courts <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://www.uscourts.gov/statistics-reports/federal-judicial-caseload-statistics-2017" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.uscourts.gov/statistics-reports/federal-judicial-caseload-statistics-2017&source=gmail&ust=1531852226515000&usg=AFQjCNFNnL4dTQiPdsKFpjeZJdxeWew0EQ">get nearly 59,000 case requests</a>. </div><div> </div><div>McConnell added that the court nominations were the "most significant thing" the Senate does.</div><div> </div><div>"When I make a decision to take up a circuit judge that's because I think it's important," he added. </div><div> </div><div><div>The decision to move forward with Oldham and Bounds comes after GOP Sen. <span class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople"><a class="rollover-people-link" data-nid="188244" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/people/jeff-flake">Jeff Flake</a><span class="rollover-people-block" id="rollover-people-188244"><span class="rollover-block"><span><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="/web/20180719000101im_/http://thehill.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumb_100/public/flakejeff_072717gn_lead.jpg?itok=7cBywm83" width="100" height="100" alt=""/><a class="name" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/people/jeff-flake">Jeffrey (Jeff) Lane Flake</a><a class="people-articles" href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/397552-kelly-lobbied-republicans-to-rebuke-trump-for-putin-press-conference">Kelly lobbied Republicans to rebuke Trump after Putin press conference: report</a> <a class="people-articles" href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/397539-senate-considers-new-russia-response-as-trump-backlash-heats-up">Senate weighs new Russia response amid Trump backlash</a> <a class="people-articles" href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/397534-flake-to-trump-fake-news-didnt-side-with-putin-you-did">Flake to Trump: 'Fake news' didn't side with Putin, you did</a> <a class="more" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/people/jeff-flake">MORE<span></span></a></span></span></span></span> (Ariz.) dropped his automatic opposition to circuit court nominees in return for the Senate taking a symbolic vote on Trump's tariffs. </div><div> </div><div>Both Oldham and Bounds cleared the Judiciary Committee on party-line votes, meaning McConnell likely needs Flake's vote to help them get confirmed. </div><div> </div><div>With their 51-seat majority effectively capped at 50 because of GOP Sen. <span class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople"><a class="rollover-people-link" data-nid="188278" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/people/john-mccain">John McCain</a><span class="rollover-people-block" id="rollover-people-188278"><span class="rollover-block"><span><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="/web/20180719000101im_/http://thehill.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumb_100/public/mccainjohn_062917gn_lead.jpg?itok=QZ1xrtIW" width="100" height="100" alt=""/><a class="name" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/people/john-mccain">John Sidney McCain</a><a class="people-articles" href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/397564-pence-and-pompeo-urged-trump-to-clarify-russia-remarks-report">Pence, Pompeo urged Trump to clarify Russia remarks: report</a> <a class="people-articles" href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/homenews/house/397471-gop-lawmaker-renews-call-for-trump-to-release-tax-returns-following-putin">GOP lawmaker renews call for Trump to release tax returns after Putin summit</a> <a class="people-articles" href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/homenews/house/397448-house-conservatives-criticize-media-not-trump-for-putin-furor">House conservatives criticize media, not Trump, for Putin furor</a> <a class="more" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/people/john-mccain">MORE<span></span></a></span></span></span></span>'s (Ariz.) absence, Republicans can confirm court nominees without help from Democrats if they remain united. </div><div> </div><div>Democrats have bristled over the pace of circuit court nominations, including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman <span class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople"><a class="rollover-people-link" data-nid="188248" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/people/chuck-grassley">Chuck Grassley</a><span class="rollover-people-block" id="rollover-people-188248"><span class="rollover-block"><span><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="/web/20180719000101im_/http://thehill.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumb_100/public/grassleychuck_040317gn3_lead.jpg?itok=ZfKVKIDu" width="100" height="100" alt=""/><a class="name" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/people/chuck-grassley">Charles (Chuck) Ernest Grassley</a><a class="people-articles" href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/397287-senate-gop-poised-to-break-record-on-trumps-court-picks">Senate GOP poised to break record on Trump's court picks</a> <a class="people-articles" href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/scheduling/397136-week-ahead-gop-mulls-vote-on-abolish-ice-legislation">This week: GOP mulls vote on ‘abolish ICE’ legislation</a> <a 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Enforcement has fluctuated depending on who controls the panel.</div><div> </div><div>Neither Sen. <span class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople"><a class="rollover-people-link" data-nid="188175" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/people/ron-wyden">Ron Wyden</a><span class="rollover-people-block" id="rollover-people-188175"><span class="rollover-block"><span><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="/web/20180719000101im_/http://thehill.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumb_100/public/wydenron_071117kc_lead.jpg?itok=kJOTCio4" width="100" height="100" alt=""/><a class="name" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/people/ron-wyden">Ronald (Ron) Lee Wyden</a><a class="people-articles" href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/397571-dems-protest-vote-on-court-pick-despite-objection-of-home-state-senators">Senate Dems protest vote on controversial court pick</a> <a class="people-articles" href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/policy/finance/overnights/397557-on-the-money-fed-chief-lays-out-risks-of-trade-war-senate-floats">On The Money: Fed chief lays out risks of trade war | Senate floats new Russia sanctions amid Trump backlash | House passes bill to boost business investment</a> <a class="people-articles" href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/policy/technology/overnights/397521-hillicon-valley-trump-reverses-on-russian-election-meddling">Hillicon Valley: Trump tries to quell Russia furor | Sparks fly at hearing on social media | First House Republican backs net neutrality bill | Meet the DNC's cyber guru | Sinclair defiant after merger setback</a> <a class="more" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/people/ron-wyden">MORE<span></span></a></span></span></span></span> (D-Ore.) nor Sen. <span class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople"><a class="rollover-people-link" data-nid="188283" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/people/jeff-merkley">Jeff Merkley</a><span class="rollover-people-block" id="rollover-people-188283"><span class="rollover-block"><span><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="/web/20180719000101im_/http://thehill.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumb_100/public/merkley_gregnash.jpg?itok=BEwNyjfP" width="100" height="100" alt=""/><a class="name" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/people/jeff-merkley">Jeffrey (Jeff) Alan Merkley</a><a class="people-articles" href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/397571-dems-protest-vote-on-court-pick-despite-objection-of-home-state-senators">Senate Dems protest vote on controversial court pick</a> <a class="people-articles" href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/policy/defense/397519-senate-adds-members-to-pro-nato-group">Senate adds members to pro-NATO group</a> <a class="people-articles" href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/397287-senate-gop-poised-to-break-record-on-trumps-court-picks">Senate GOP poised to break record on Trump's court picks</a> <a class="more" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/people/jeff-merkley">MORE<span></span></a></span></span></span></span> (D-Ore.) returned their blue slip on Bounds. </div></div></div></div></div></div> <div class="article-tags"> <span>Tags</span> <a href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/person/mitch-mcconnell" title="Mitch McConnell">Mitch McConnell</a> <a href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/person/chuck-grassley" title="Chuck Grassley">Chuck Grassley</a> <a href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/person/donald-trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> <a href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/person/jeff-merkley" title="Jeff Merkley">Jeff Merkley</a> <a href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/person/john-mccain" title="John McCain">John McCain</a> <a href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/person/jeff-flake" title="Jeff Flake">Jeff Flake</a> <a href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/person/ron-wyden" title="Ron Wyden">Ron Wyden</a> <a href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/social-tags/circuit-court" title="Circuit court">Circuit court</a> <a href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/social-tags/nominees" title="nominees">nominees</a> <a href="/web/20180719000101/http://thehill.com/social-tags/senate-judiciary-committee" title="Senate Judiciary Committee">Senate Judiciary Committee</a> </div> <div id="bottom-story-socials" class="blogs-social-wrp"> <div class="addthis_inline_share_toolbox_ru82"></div> <div class="share-additional"> <div class="share-linkedin"> <script> ;(function(){ var linkedinScriptEl = document.querySelector('script[src="//web.archive.org/web/20180719000101/http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js"]'); 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