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Court Vacancies Mean Trump Gets To Nominate 12% Of All Federal Judges From Day One

Robert Raben in Buzzfeed News

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Court Vacancies Mean Trump Gets To Nominate 12% Of All Federal Judges From Day One

Civil rights and liberal advocacy groups say they’ll launch public advocacy campaigns to oppose nominees they object to, but the left hasn’t been as centrally organized as conservatives when it comes to the courts, said Robert Raben of lobbying and policy firm The Raben Group, a former lawyer at the Justice Department and on Capitol Hill who works as a strategist with liberal groups. There is no left-wing equivalent of the Judicial Crisis Network, he said.

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