From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains.

One of the President's most profound and lasting legacies is his appointment of federal judges.

And President Trump and Senate Republicans have been hard at work. A growing economy, a huge stock market rally, ISIS beaten on the ground, rocket man confronted.

These are all Trump successes. Add one more. Big changes in the judiciary. For conservatives,

this may be the most far reaching of all the president's initiatives.

His breakneck success on getting judges confirmed to the federal bench has many on the right cheering,

and many on the left sounding the alarm.

Another day, another judicial nominee getting Senate approval.

Well, you know what my top priority is?

I've made it very clear.

It's the judiciary, the two Supreme Court appointments, the 29 circuit judges,

the 84 overall number of judges, and we're not through doing those this year.

President Trump has made almost 40% more nominations to life-tenured positions than the average for his five predecessors of both parties, despite Democrat obstruction.

Today, we'll explain how the midterm election victory in the Senate gives Republicans

an opportunity to confirm more judges even faster and what that could mean for the future of the country.

Thomas Chipping is Deputy Director of Heritage's Meath Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.

So Tom, Republicans held the Senate. What does that mean for the

Supreme Court? Well, we don't know for sure when a vacancy is going to happen on the Supreme Court.

Federal judges serve for as long as they choose to, so it's not like they have a schedule or anything.

But, you know, Justice Ginsburg is 85. Justice Breyer is about 80.

You know, do the math.

It's possible that there may be another vacancy on the Supreme Court just in the next couple of years.

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