There has been much chatter about Justices Liu and Kruger being appointed to other positions. Today's DJ, for instance has 'Attorney General Goodwin Liu,' urging Gov. Newsom to make such an appointment. Similarly, there's been talk about appointments to the 9th Cir., SCOTUS, or the SG's office. The best place to follow this conversation is At The Lectern, which today reports that Justice Kruger reportedly has declined Solicitor General job twice.
Law360 has Trump's Imprint on the Judiciary in 6 Charts, which notes:
- With 234 judicial appointments during his four years in office, President Donald Trump enjoyed the most productive single term since the 1970s and named the same number of appellate jurists as President Barack Obama did in two terms.
- As Trump leaves office, his appointees account for more than a quarter of all active Article III judges. His imprint is even more significant on the appeals courts, where his 54 picks amount to just over a third of all active judges.
- Trump "flipped" the majority in three circuits — the Second, Third and Eleventh — but appointments by President-elect Joe Biden could easily undo the change.
- While Trump's picks were much less diverse than Obama's, Republicans highlighted trail-blazing appointments, including Ninth Circuit Judge Patrick J. Bumatay, the first Filipino-American federal judge and only the second openly LGBT appellate jurist; D.C. Circuit Judge Neomi Rao, the first South Asian-American woman on a federal appeals court; and Judge Richard E. Myers II, the first Black judge in the Eastern District of North Carolina.
- Overall, however, Trump's selections made the judiciary less diverse in both gender and race.
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