But Mr. Trump’s confidence in a future victory at the Supreme Court follows the successful confirmation of his appointment of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch. “They used to call this ‘judge shopping!’ Messy system.”The figure Mr. Trump cited does not refer to all rulings handed down by the appeals court but only to those that the Supreme Court reviewed. Over all, the Supreme Court overturned about 70 percent of the rulings it chose to review from 2010 to 2015, according to PolitiFact. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe “judge shopping” that Mr. Trump denounced has been used to thwart presidents of both parties. Mr. Obama’s success rate at the Supreme Court was the lowest of any president in more than a century.

Source: New York Times April 26, 2017 13:14 UTC