The United States Courts, the third branch of government laid out in the Constitution, maintains a website that tracks vacancies among its 890 authorized judgeships. That site is continually updated, but for conservative supporters of President Trump most concerned with the judiciary - and they are legion - its scorecard doesn’t change often enough.
I’ve written before that judicial nominations and confirmations are the key metric of success for the Trump “base” and that the greatest impediment to the president’s nominees is the so-called blue slip. But if the Senate’s “old guard” among the GOP needed anything more than the desire to see originalism return or to vindicate voters’ will to prod it to end, once and for all, the anti-constitutional use of the blue slip, former White House chief strategist Stephen K.