Nick is wrong, the judicial obstruction by the GOP during Obama's presidency was unprecedented and has no analog to anything that Democrats have done.
"Since Republicans took control of the Senate at the beginning of the 114th Congress last year, senators have voted to confirm only 22 of President Obama’s judicial nominees. That’s the lowest total since 1951-52, in the final years of Harry Truman’s presidency.
By contrast, when Democrats controlled the Senate in the last two years of George W. Bush’s presidency, 68 of his judicial nominees were confirmed.
More than twice as many vacancies, 107, exist on federal benches than when Bush left office.
In total, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts counts 890 slots for full-time federal judges. Federal district courts have 84 vacancies, and the regional circuit courts of appeal have another 14. The specialized appeals courts for international trade and federal claims have eight vacant seats. The 107th vacancy is the best-known: the Supreme Court seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
The vacancies reflect a long-term goal of McConnell and other leading Republicans to tilt the court system toward conservatives.
"There was an almost total breakdown of confirmations once the Republicans took control of the Senate," said Russell Wheeler of the Brookings Institution, who closely tracks federal judges."
This Congress filled the fewest judgeships since 1952. That leaves a big opening for Trump