When Trump criticized a ruling from a so-called “Obama judge” in 2018,
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. responded that “we do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.”
But the data suggests that in the 13 appellate courts, there is increasingly such a thing as a Trump judge.
The president’s appointees voted to allow his policies to take effect 133 times and voted against them only 12 times.
Ninety-two percent of their total votes were in favor of the administration.
That figure far outstrips support for Trump’s agenda from appeals court judges appointed by other Republican presidents,
and from Trump’s appointees to the district courts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/politics/trumps-appeals-court-judges.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
