Trump's MAGA Makeover Of The Courts Is Over

HuffPost · Jennifer Bendery · 2026-11-05 12:00 UTC

With Democrats set to run the Senate, the president can no longer rely on the GOP to rubber-stamp judicial nominees who won’t say he lost in 2020.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s days of trying to MAGA-fy the courts are over.

With Democrats set to take control of the Senate in January, Trump will no longer be able to count on Republicans to simply rubber-stamp his nominees to lifetime federal judgeships.

GOP senators have been doing this for the last two years, confirming dozens of court picks who arguably should have been disqualified from the start: all have refused to say during their Senate nomination hearings, under oath, that Trump lost the 2020 presidential election or that he incited the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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