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Donald J. Trump’s recent and prior administrations put forward a long list of claimed accomplishments spanning executive actions, economic metrics, trade and energy moves, and high-profile appointment...
President Donald J. Trump, across his time in office and into his second term through December 9, 2025, had 260 Article III federal judges confirmed — including three Supreme Court associate justices ...
’s first term (2017–2021) produced a mix of durable institutional changes—most notably sweeping judicial appointments and a major tax overhaul—alongside aggressive , energy-policy shifts, and high-pro...
Three current U.S. Supreme Court justices—Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett—were appointed by President Donald Trump, a shift that transformed the Court’s center of gravity and helpe...
The Heritage Foundation has produced a steady stream of conservative officials who have moved into influential government roles, particularly in Republican administrations: at least 66 employees and a...
The Senate’s “nuclear option” was invoked multiple times before 2025 to lower the cloture threshold for certain nominations: the most consequential changes occurred in (Democrats, Harry Reid), (Republ...
Donald Trump’s first term produced a large, well-documented reshaping of the federal bench: 234 Article III judges were confirmed from 2017–2021, including three Supreme Court justices and 54 appellat...
Donald Trump’s judicial appointments substantially increased the share of Republican-appointed judges on the federal bench—most markedly on the courts of appeals—while producing only more modest shift...
The reporting and opinions show this was not a 7–2 decision but a sharply divided 6–3 Supreme Court ruling that recognized substantial presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for some official...
In 2017 Senate Republicans led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell invoked the so-called to eliminate the 60-vote threshold for cloture on Supreme Court nominations, allowing Neil Gorsuch to be confirm...
The April 6, 2017 invocation of the “” removed the 60-vote cloture hurdle for Supreme Court nominees, allowing debate to be cut off and confirmation to proceed by a simple majority—paving the way for ...
’s Supreme Court and lower-court nominees shifted the federal judiciary decisively rightward, producing outcomes that helped eliminate Roe’s federal protection for abortion and that have increased jud...
The procedural “nuclear option” has been used in the Senate and has affected Supreme Court confirmations: Democrats first invoked it for most nominations in November 2013, and Republicans extended the...
Eliminating the 60-vote threshold for Supreme Court confirmations converts the decision from a supermajority safeguard into a simple-majority outcome, a change that was implemented for Supreme Court n...
The 2013 and 2017 Senate rule changes known as the '' altered the Senate’s confirmation-vote landscape: , and . These moves removed the standard 60-vote filibuster cloture hurdle for nearly all nomina...
appointed by — and (with in the majority of other Trump‑appointed blocs)—have authored opinions since 2024 that reshaped discrete doctrines: Barrett wrote a key opinion constraining and directing lowe...
Yes — has in modern times ended or sharply curtailed the filibuster for categories of business not by formally rewriting standing rules, but by setting new precedents through parliamentary rulings and...
and diverged sharply in both scale and strategy when reshaping the : Obama made a larger number of total over eight years and emphasized diversity and professional credentials, while Trump — working w...
Federal courts are split on prosecutions that rest mainly on internet service provider (ISP) logs or third‑party reports: several circuits treat provider matching and tips as permissible leads that do...
Republicans in the Senate invoked the so‑called “nuclear option” on April 6, 2017, voting 52–48 along party lines to change Senate precedent so Supreme Court nominations could be clotured and then con...