President Donald Trump‘s second administration has seen numerous lawsuits challenging its actions. While plaintiffs have had some success in halting his executive orders, at least temporarily, most of the cases have been brought in jurisdictions with few, if any, judges appointed by Trump.
Plaintiffs have filed 107 cases in the District of Columbia’s district court. There are only four Trump-appointed judges in the district, which has been the venue for the most cases against his administration, as the federal government largely conducts its business in D.C.
There have been 23 cases brought in the District of Massachusetts, where there are no Trump-appointed judges; there have been 19 cases in the District of Maryland, where there is only one Trump-appointed judge; and there are 10 cases in the Western District of Washington, while there are no judges in the district appointed by Trump.
Other top spots for lawsuits include the Northern District of California, where there have been nine cases brought against Trump and no judges appointed by the president, and the Southern District of New York, where nine cases have been brought against the president in a district where there are four Trump judges.
Out of the cases that made it to the court of appeals, there have been six cases in the first circuit where Trump has no appointees, four cases in the fourth circuit where Trump has three appointees, six cases in the ninth nircuit where Trump has 10 appointees, and 12 cases in the DC circuit where Trump has three appointees.
Trump appointed and confirmed 234 federal judges during his first term, a quick pace for getting judges on the bench, which was barely surpassed by former President Joe Biden, who was able to get 235 judges on the bench during his lone term in office.
The most district judges appointed by Trump reside in Texas, 18, Pennsylvania, 15, and Florida, 12. He appointed the most appeals court judges to the ninth circuit, 10, covering Alaska, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Northern Mariana Islands, Oregon, and Washington; the eleventh circuit, six, covering Alabama, Florida, and Georgia; and the sixth circuit, six, covering Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee.
Several district judges appointed by Biden and former president Barack Obama who have handed Trump unfavorable rulings have been assigned to more than one case targeting his administration’s actions, including U.S. District Judge James Boasberg. Trump has called for Boasberg to be impeached over his national injunction against the president’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act.
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Trump expressed skepticism about the process by which judges are selected to oversee cases after Boasberg was assigned a case surrounding the Signal group chat leak scandal, claiming the process was “rigged” against him.
Boasberg’s chambers told the Washington Examiner that his assignment to the Signal case was made at random.