Biden Agenda Faces GOP Legal Attacks and Skeptical Trump Judges
- Trump appointed about 30% of federal appeals courts judges
- Progressive moves may be “frustrating and very difficult”
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President-elect Joe Biden is likely to meet a flurry of legal challenges to his agenda -- and a federal bench freshly stocked with conservative judges.
Republican state attorneys general, industry groups and conservative activists will sue if they don’t like Biden’s initiatives, as they did during the Obama administration and as Democrats have under President Donald Trump. And the new judges hearing those cases could put up some formidable obstacles to the Democratic agenda.