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editor victoria’s comment ~ one more reason to ENDTHEFED.  how much more filth has to be revealed before the swamp gets zapped into the ether?

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By Elizabeth Harrington | Washington Free Beacon

The Social Security Administration paid $1 billion in benefits to individuals who did not have a Social Security Number (SSN), according to a new audit.

The agency’s inspector general found errors in the government’s documentation for representative payees, otherwise known as individuals who receive retirement or disability payments on behalf of another person who is incapable of managing the benefits themselves.

The audit released Friday found thousands of cases where there was no SSN on file.

Over the last decade, the agency paid $1 billion to 22,426 representative payees who “did not have an SSN, and SSA had not followed its policy to retain the paper application.”

“Furthermore, unless it takes corrective action, we estimate SSA will pay about $182.5 million in benefits, annually, to representative payees who do not have an SSN or paper application supporting their selection,” the inspector general said.

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There has been a lot of talk about Trump appointing judges during his term. It's a very big bright spot for his admin. So let's dig into the numbers and compare to Obama and Bush numbers. Per Ballotpedia there are a total of 874 Article 3 judges in the USA.

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) September 15, 2019

This further breaks down into 9 SCOTUS seats, 179 seats on the Appeals courts, 677 seats at the district level and 9 seats on Court of international trade. (Obama and Bush numbers are for all 8 years. Trump's numbers are for 2.75 years.)

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) September 15, 2019

 

There were a total of 327 article 3 judges appointed by President Bush:

2 SCOTUS Judges (including a Chief justice) (
62 appeals court judges
261 district court judges
2 International trade court judges

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) September 15, 2019

There were a total of 329 article 3 judges appointed by President Obama:

2 SCOTUS court judges
55 appeals court judges
268 district court judges
4 international trade court judges

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) September 15, 2019

There have been a total of 152 article 3 judges appointed by President Trump(so far):

2 SCOTUS court judges
43 appeals court judges
105 district court judges
2 Internal Trade court judges

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) September 15, 2019

Each President appointed 22.2% of the current SCOTUS. Pres Clinton appointed another 22.2% and President Bush the first appointed 11.2%.

For the lower courts retirements and deaths have changed the % and I don't feel like researching how many are still on the courts from each

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) September 15, 2019

 

President Trump (so far) has been able to appoint:
24% of the appeals court
15.5% of the district courts
22% of the International Trade court.

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) September 15, 2019

There are currently 97 vacancies on Article 3 courts that are waiting to be filled with another 13 seats that will be vacant before Trump's term ends. ( 7 appeals court seats, 101 district court seats and 2 international trade court seats)

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) September 15, 2019

Of those 97 vacancies Trump has nominated 35 judges. they are awaiting Senate confirmation ( 2 appeals court and 33 district judges)

If all vacancies are filled before the end of Trump's first term (which I see little reason to suggest they won't be) then….

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) September 15, 2019

…President Trump will have had the following record on judges in his first term (barring any other retirements or deaths of judges):

22% of SCOTUS
27.9% of appeals court
30.4% of district courts
44.4% of International Trade court.

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) September 15, 2019

Update: I forgot to mention that the 43 appeal judges appointed by President Trump are the most at this period of time in a term for any President in history. Obama only had 19 at this point, Bush had 27 and Clinton had 26. Next to SCOTUS, appeals courts are the most powerful.

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) September 15, 2019

 

The Justice Department on Thursday notified attorneys for former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe that his appeal to avoid criminal prosecution has been rejected, according to Bloomberg, citing a source close to McCabe’s legal team.

The decision comes roughly a month after McCabe filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the DOJ and Attorney General William Barr, after an internal investigation into media leaks resulted in his firing.

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