民主党周二晚间的大胜将很快终结唐纳德·特朗普总统最重要的成就之一：重塑联邦司法体系。
Democrats’ romp wiped away the president’s chance at muscling through many more judicial nominees. Democrats’ sweeping victories Tuesday night will soon bring to a halt one of President Donald Trump’s most important achievements: remaking the federal judiciary.
民主党甚至可能有希望削弱最高法院的保守派超级多数地位，这取决于他们最终赢得多少参议院席位以及是否出现空缺。
Democrats may even have some hope of chipping away at the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, depending on the number of Senate seats they ultimately pick up and whether a vacancy arises.
特朗普在其两个任期内已任命近300名法官，这些法官整体上将把联邦法官席位在一代人的时间里拉向右翼。他的第二任期法官尤其常被证明是保守派司法界中的异类。
Trump has already, over the course of his two terms, appointed nearly 300 judges who, collectively, will pull the federal bench to the right for a generation. His second-term judges, in particular, have often proven to be outliers even among the conservative judiciary.
但这位跛脚鸭总统一旦民主党在1月正式接管参议院，将几乎无法确认任何新法官。
But the lame-duck president will be able to confirm few, if any, new judges once Democrats formally take over the Senate in January.