Dem
47
GOP
53
Back when pitchers used to bat in major league baseball (before 1973 in the American League and before 2022 in the National League), the vast majority were not champion hitters because they spent all their practice time pitching, whereas, say, catchers didn't spend all their practice time catching. The average batting average for NL pitchers in 2021 was .108, which means they were out about 89% of the time. Donald Trump's batting average in court is even worse. It is .075.
Politico has a running tally of all court cases against Trump's mass detention policy. We have put the data in a .csv file so you can download it and analyze it in various ways. The spreadsheet does not contain hyperlinks to the court rulings, so you have to go to the Politico article to see them.
Here are a few factoids for you. Of the 411 cases so far, Trump has won 31 of them and lost 380. Of the 31 winners, 23 of the judges were Trump appointees, two were Barack Obama appointees, two were George W. Bush appointees, and two were Ronald Reagan appointees. There was one George H.W. Bush and one Joe Biden win. So of his wins, 74% came from the home team. So Trump is doing pretty well with his own judges, right? Not so. Here are the percentages by president:
| Appointing President | Rulings | Trump wins | Pct. |
| Donald Trump | 68 | 23 | 34% |
| Ronald Reagan | 9 | 2 | 22% |
| George H.W. Bush | 8 | 1 | 13% |
| George W. Bush | 45 | 2 | 4% |
| Barack Obama | 118 | 2 | 2% |
| Joe Biden | 124 | 1 | 1% |
| Bill Clinton | 39 | 0 | 0% |
So the winner is Trump or Clinton, depending on which way you are counting. Now let us add up the totals by party. Here are the sums:
| Party | Rulings | Trump wins | Pct. |
| Republican | 131 | 28 | 21% |
| Democratic | 280 | 3 | 1% |
As you can see, partisanship plays a pretty limited role here. All judges are sworn to uphold the same Constitution and the same laws so no matter who the judge is, you generally get the same result, independent of the party of the president who nominated the judge (outside of the occasional Neomi Rao or Trevor McFadden). Yessiree. Again, you can download the spreadsheet and score things by state and other ways if you like. (V)