YUMMY – THIS IS SOMETHING WE ANTICIPATE WITH GLEE – AT 9:43 A.M. ET:   President-elect Trump has vast opportunities to reshape the federal judicial system.  He should pounce.  From the Daily Mail: 

Donald Trump will be able to fill more than 100 vacancies in the federal courts when he takes office next month.

Trump will walk into the White House as there are a total of 103 empty seats on courts, in addition to the lingering Supreme Court vacancy after the death of Antonin Scalia.

The triple-digit figure is staggeringly almost double the number President Barack Obama had to fill - 54- when he replaced George W. Bush in the Oval Office.

Conservative leaders are already hoping Trump will pick people to further push their ideals on a number of key issues - such as gun control, women's health and rights, immigration, and voter restriction, the Washington Post reports.

'I'm optimistic he'll come at this right out of the gate,' Judicial Crisis Network chief counsel Carrie Severino said.

'Every president can expect to make a huge impact. [Trump] is unique in having campaigned really hard on this issue — the significance of the courts, and of the Supreme Court in particular.'
Severino's group has been staunchly against many of President Obama's court appointments.

COMMENT:  I winced a bit at some of the language used in the article just quoted.  The Daily Mail is British, but has been excellent in much of its American reporting.  However, some of its copy retains the taint of the British left.  Terms like "voter restriction" are inflammatory and inaccurate.  The usual anti-Americans in the foreign press will double down on Trump, having given the "third-world" Obama something of a pass.  They are, like the elites generally, about 50 years out of date, give or take a generation.

December 26,  2016