This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Thursday, February 25th, 2021.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The Trump presidency, along with a Republican Senate, brought with it a dramatic increase in judicial appointments.

But last year, Donald Trump lost the White House and Republicans lost the Senate.

So what is the state of the conservative legal movement after the Trump presidency?

Billy Eesley is a senior policy advisor at Americans for Prosperity.

We discussed his new essay at Libertarianism.org, the myth of Trump's judicial success.

What was the upside of the Trump administration with respect to judges.

The numbers, I mean the sheer numbers of how many people who are principled conservative

activists who may we managed to get through the Senate.

Over 200 nominees were confirmed.

We had 54 appellate nominees confirmed,

and we had three Supreme Court justices who are going to

change the entire way that the judicial philosophy on the court will be for a generation.

And so when you say we, you mean the conservative legal movement,

not to be confused with people who call themselves conservatives.

Yeah, actually I think that's a sort of fascinating sort of point to note here.

And I think it's actually broader than what people consider it to be, right?

I think when people say a conservative legal movement, they tend to only think about

about federal society, right?

The people in DC coming up with the names and lists of people

who should be appointed, right?

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