Obama appointments pull appeals courts to the left

President Obama may be struggling to tilt the balance of the Supreme Court – but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t already made his mark on the bench.

Rules changes by the Democrat Senate helped President Obama stack the lower courts.

“The Supreme Court takes very few cases, there’s not an opportunity to correct every error made — and when you have activist judges at the lower levels of the federal judiciary, that can have a damaging effect on [the] American system and rule of law,” said Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director at the Judicial Crisis Network.

The president has successfully seated a total of 329 federal judges during his two terms – all of them, lifetime appointments.

When Obama took office, only three appellate courts had more Democrat-appointed judges than Republican-appointed judges.

Now, nine of the 13 circuits do.

The U.S. Supreme Court hears only 70-80 cases a year, making the lower courts even more important as they handle hundreds of thousands of cases each year, often representing the final word on critical issues.

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