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Speaker 1: Now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, exploring

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Speaker 1: a d r dot org. Today Bloomberg, Lajos, Reig Store,

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Speaker 1: and Michael Best discussed President Trump's efforts to shift the

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Speaker 1: nation's judiciary to the right with a slate of conservative

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Speaker 1: Appeals Cord nominees. They speak with Jonathan Adler, a professor

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Speaker 1: at Case Western University Law School, and Billy Courier, Deputy

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Speaker 1: director of Legal Progress at the Center for American Progress. Billy,

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Speaker 1: do you see any uh fundamental difference between the way

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is approaching judge ships and the way Barack

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Speaker 1: Obama or George Bush or any other recent president did? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I believe so. I mean, the President explicitly said that

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Speaker 1: he's outsourcing his Supreme Court nominee list to the Federalist

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Speaker 1: Society and the Heritage and that unprecedented, Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: not just the list, but having these outside groups actually

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Speaker 1: draw up the list, um. And I think also, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, the President has disregarded the American Bar Association's

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Speaker 1: historic role in this process, and that was something that

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Speaker 1: of course President Bush did as well. Um. But I

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Speaker 1: think it's something that shows that the president is relying

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Speaker 1: on these right wing groups rather than uh, the American

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Speaker 1: Bar Association, which historically played a big role in recommending

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Speaker 1: or not recommending nominees. Jonathan. Given the number of judge

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Speaker 1: hips that are open right now, how big an impact

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Speaker 1: really can we expect President Trump's nominees to have as

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Speaker 1: far as how the lug gets interpreted in the country. Sure, well,

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Speaker 1: in terms of numbers, it takes a long time for

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Speaker 1: a single president, uh to really alter the composition of

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Speaker 1: the federal courts. As a general rule, we can assume

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Speaker 1: that a president in a single four year term will

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Speaker 1: get to nominate about one fifth of the federal judiciary.

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Speaker 1: And so two term president has a very substantial impact.

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Speaker 1: And President Obama, for example, and he took office, there

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Speaker 1: was one federal appellate court that had a majority of

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Speaker 1: Democratic nominees on it when he became president. When he left,

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Speaker 1: I believe it was seven or eight that have a

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Speaker 1: majority Democratic nominees um for President Trump. UM. There's certainly

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Speaker 1: are a decent number of vacancies now, but there's only

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Speaker 1: one federal appellate court um that could that could have

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Speaker 1: its balance altered based on existing vacancies, and that's the

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Speaker 1: Third Circuit UH, and it would take time in additional

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Speaker 1: retirements for his nominees to have that sort of impact.

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Speaker 1: That's Jonathan Adler, a professor at Case Western University Law School,

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Speaker 1: and Billy Courier speaking with the Bloomberg Law host Greg

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