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>> of 890 seats on the federal bench, 136 are vacant with 15 nominations pending. during his eight years in the white house, president obama reshaped more than one key federal court and with the help of perry reed, change the rules for confirming federal judges to the lower court forever. the trump administration plans to use that to the president's advantage. >> what he needs to do is replicate the success of justice gorsuch on a massive scale throughout the courts of appeals and district court spirit >> conservatives point to a judge who was recently elevated to a seat on the sixth circuit b...

Unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected congress. and i'm pretty confident that this court will recognize that and not take that step. >> now, a federal appeals court has ordered the justice department to verify the president's comments. shannon bream with the news live tonight in washington. shannon? >> shepard, here is how it went down. judge jerry smith reagan appointee who sits on the sixth circuit bench did not mince word today. over portions of the affordable care act judge stopped the arguments and started a...