No U.S. president in the last 40 years has done this

It’s tempting to assume that Trump’s judicial appointees share the goonish incompetence of the man who placed them on the bench, but this assumption could not be more wrong. His picks include leading academics, Supreme Court litigators, and already prominent judges who now enjoy even more power within the judiciary.

He’s filled the bench with some of the smartest, and some of the most ideologically reliable, men and women to be found in the conservative movement.

Via Vox.