Donald Trump’s lasting legacy is a right-leaning judiciary
Newly appointed judges number in the hundreds, all of them Republican and all confirmed quickly by Mitch McConnell
Washington — When a US appeals court declared that Florida could make it harder for convicted felons to vote — a ruling decried by civil rights activists — the impact of President Donald Trump’s conservative judicial appointments was plain to see.
The Atlanta-based 11th US circuit court of appeals was divided six to four in the September ruling, with five Trump appointees in the majority. It reversed a decision by a federal judge who found that the Republican-governed state’s effort to require felons, after their sentences are completed, to pay fines, restitution and legal fees before they could cast ballots violated their voting rights under the US constitution...
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