Some Justices Skipped Biden’s Inauguration | Trump’s Impact On The Courts Will Be Hard To Undo

January 21, 2021

Robert Barnes with The Washington Post reports only six Supreme Court justices attended PRESIDENT BIDEN’S inauguration ceremony — the first time in more than 20 years that not all of the justices attended the event. The three oldest justices, BREYER, THOMAS and ALITO, did not attend “in light of the public health risks posed by the COVID pandemic,” Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathleen Arberg said in a statement. Barnes also points out, “As a team, former senators Biden and Harris voted against six of the nine justices on the current court. That might explain some of the no-shows.”

As justices and other prominent figures gathered for JOE BIDEN’S inauguration, the Supreme Court received a bomb threat. SCOTUS spokeswoman, Kathy Arberg, said in a statement yesterday, “The building and grounds were checked out, and the building is not being evacuated.”

“After only one term, Trump filled 28 percent of vacant seats on the federal bench, including 27 percent of active federal district court judges and 30 percent of active appeals court judges, not to mention three Supreme Court justices. This figure is far higher than for other recent presidents in their first terms — by January 2013, for instance, Barack Obama had appointed just 17 percent of the vacant federal judge spots, and at the end of his first term, George W. Bush had appointed 21 percent.” Elena Mejia and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux with FiveThirtyEight review the outsized mark PRESIDENT TRUMP left on the federal courts. They explain the former president made the courts whiter and more conservative, an effect that’s going to be very difficult for PRESIDENT BIDEN to undo.