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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ju...rticle/2622466

Until 2013, there were still active lower-court judges who had been appointed by Richard Nixon, and more than a dozen of his appointees continue to hear cases as senior judges to this day. There is still one appointee of President Lyndon Johnson's on active duty, in California. This shows that Trump's judicial legacy will endure long after his less-impressive ways have been long forgotten.


He has done well so far to appoint smart, serious, conservative, text-focused jurists. Whatever they think of his other policies, conservatives are unlikely to abandon Trump as long he keeps filling vacancies on the federal bench with disciplined originalists and textualists who understand that their job is to interpret the law, not make it up. So just as his judges list won Trump the presidency, so it is likely to keep it viable for him with political support he could easily squander otherwise.