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Republican lawyers and lawmakers are working together to install conservative judges at a rate not seen in decades.

The result could be a federal judiciary that is as partisan and polarized as Congress itself.

On today’s episode:

? Charlie Savage , a New York Times reporter based in Washington.

Background reading:

? Republicans are systematically filling appellate seats they held open during President Barack Obama’s final two years in office with a particularly conservative group of judges with life tenure . Democrats have little power to stop them.

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