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    Trump presidency’s most lasting impact? A transformed judiciary.

    Dec 19, 2019 5 minutes

    In early November, during the impeachment inquiry against him, President Donald Trump threw a celebration in the East Room of the White House.

    The guests: a group of Senate Republicans and Leonard Leo, head of The Federalist Society. The occasion: President Trump’s appointing 44 federal appeals court judges – about one-quarter of the entire appeals court bench.

    The Trump administration and Senate Republicans – along with The Federalist Society, the conservative legal group tasked by the administration with identifying and vetting reliably conservative nominees – have over the past three years developed a pipeline of relentless efficiency for lifetime judicial appointments.

    The volume of confirmed judges is arguably the greatest achievement of Mr. Trump’s first term, and undoubtedly will be his longest lasting. The two Supreme Court justices

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