Jennifer Bendery is a senior politics reporter for HuffPost. She has covered Congress and the White House for HuffPost since April 2011. She previously reported on Congress for four years for Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, and spent four years covering the Texas Legislature for GalleryWatch in Austin, TX.
WASHINGTON — For the third time since Donald Trump won the presidential election last month, a federal judge is canceling plans for retirement, effectively denying Trump the ability to fill that court seat with someone younger and more ideologically conservative.
Trump confirmed 234 lifetime federal judges in his first term, a huge number that was thanks largely to then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell taking an aggressive stance on confirming judges. “Looking to history, only two judges have ever ‘un-retired’ after a presidential election ― one Democrat in 2004, and one Republican in 2009,” McConnell said on the Senate floor in early December.have already met that all-time record,” he said. “It’s hard to conclude that this is anything other than open partisanship.”It’s not clear if a judge’s decision to cancel retirement plans violates any ethics rules.
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