No, Trump is Not ‘Packing’ the Courts

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On May 8 President Trump announced his nominees to fill 10 of the 120 vacancies on federal district and appellate courts. All 10 have conservative pedigrees. They were on a list supplied by the conservative Heritage Foundation (the same list from which Trump picked Neil Gorsuch). Or they were vetted by the conservative Federalist Society—or in the case of Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett, nominated by Trump for the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals—had clerked for the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia.

Here’s the headline on the Associated Press story that was picked up by media across the country within minutes of Trump’s announcement:

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