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Cato Weekly Podcast • February 25, 2021 

# Were Trump’s Judicial Appointments Worth It? 

Some in the conservative legal movement view Trump’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) success at confirming judges as simply not worth the rest of the Trump presidency. Billy Easley, a senior policy advisor at Americans for Prosperity, is one of them. His new [Lib​er​tar​i​an​ism​.org](http://libertarianism.org/) essay is entitled, “[The Myth of Trump’s Judicial Success](https://www.libertarianism.org/articles/myth-trump-judicial-success).”

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