The next president is poised to inherit the fewest judicial vacancies in generations

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : During his four years in office, Trump appointed 234 federal judges, the second-highest amount by a one-term president.
53% : "If Trump is elected, the judiciary becomes the Trump judiciary," said Maggie Jo Buchanan, managing director of Demand Justice.
41% : They may rethink that decision if Trump wins.
32% : Biden, a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, entered office with less than half the amount of vacancies that Trump inherited.
32% : More than half of the active judges on the nation's appeals courts were appointed by Trump and Biden, according to an analysis by liberal judicial advocacy group Demand Justice.
27% : "When Trump took office in 2017, he inherited more than 100 vacancies -- a high number thanks to Senate Republicans blocking confirmation of former President Barack Obama's judicial nominees near the end of his term.

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