NOMINATIONS/NONTRUTHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [1-30-18] delivered his first State of the Union address, and CNN’s Reality Check Team was there to vet his claims.
The team of reporters, researchers and editors across CNN listened throughout the speech and analyzed key statements, rating them either true, true but misleading, or false…
Most circuit court judges of any new administration?…
It may be one of his longest lasting legacies, and Trump was quick to tout it Tuesday: a conservative reshaping of the federal judiciary.
‘Working with the Senate,’ Trump said, ‘we are appointing judges who will interpret the Constitution as written, including a great new Supreme Court justice, and more circuit court judges than any new administration in the history of our country.’
It’s a big claim. Since the start of the Trump administration, 13 judges have been confirmed by the Senate to the powerful appellate courts — the latest, David Stras to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, just on Tuesday…
The rapid pace of confirmations comes as the White House and Senate Republican leadership move in lockstep, at times eschewing past norms — like holding hearings for multiple circuit court positions at once — and by moving forward with nominees who don’t have the approval of both of his or her own home state senators. But currently in the minority in the Senate, Democrats have been only able to protest as Trump has made history.
Verdict: True.”
-CNN’s Reality Check Team, “CNN’s Reality Check Team vets Trump’s State of the Union,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Jan. 31, 2018 09:46am