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Why Haven’t Trump’s Judges Saved Him?
The president has appointed orthodox Republicans to the federal bench, not cronies.
Nice try.
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Why have Republican judges stood up against President Donald Trump’s attempts to undermine democracy? As the Washington Post’s Rosalind S. Helderman and Elise Viebeck report, dozens of judges, many of them chosen by Republicans and some of them nominated by Trump himself, have ruled against him and his allies — often in sharp, dismissive terms.