President Trump’s judges are beginning to transform the federal courts, but the pace may be slowing. (Photo: Alex Brandon, AP) WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s record pace at filling federal appeals court vacancies over the past two years may be approaching a slowdown. Since taking office 22 months ago, Trump has named 29 conservative judges to federal circuit courts, the regional appeals courts that handle more than 50,000 cases a year. The Supreme Court, by comparison, hears about 70. The president’s success, in addition to Senate confirmation of Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, has been heralded by conservatives as his crowning achievement. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and former White House counsel Don McGahn, architects of the judicial agenda, were greeted with thunderous applause last week at the Federalist Society’s annual convention here. In Trump’s third year in office, he is likely to have fewer positions to fill because he has already named judges for many of the vacancies he inherited from President Barack Obama. And like Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, appeals court judges named by Democratic presidents have an incentive to keep their lifetime appointments while Trump is in office. “So many vacancies have been filled on the courts of appeals that there just aren’t that many left now,” says Ed Whelan, president of the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center. As his first two years in office draw to a close, Trump has nominated 154 federal judges, more than any of his five most recent predecessors
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