I’M JUST WILD ABOUT HARRY: The Senate left town with 99 judicial vacancies, as well as the current Supreme Court opening.

There are also 38 judicial emergencies, according to the federal judiciary. Republicans had mulled confirming some judges if Hillary Clinton had won, GOP sources said before the election, but since Trump prevailed Republicans believed there was little reason to do any judicial confirmations in the lame duck. The Senate last voted on a judge on July 6, when Brian Martinotti was confirmed to a New Jersey district court.

The CRS data stretches back to 1987, and there is no modern equivalent to the slow-pace of judicial confirmations over the past two years. The second-fewest over that period was during the GOP-led Senate of 2005 and 2006, when just 51 of President George W. Bush’s judicial picks were confirmed.

“The numbers speak for themselves. The Republican-led Senate worked the fewest days in session since the 1950s, took the longest summer recess in modern era and confirmed the fewest judges and nominees in recent history. Those aren’t records to be proud of,” said Kristen Orthman, a spokeswoman for outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).

But Republicans argued that as majority leader, Reid goosed the numbers from 2013 to 2014, confirming 132 lifetime judges after changing the Senate rules to allow their confirmation by a majority vote. Don Stewart, a spokesman for McConnell, said the judges that Reid confirmed after losing the Senate in 2014 would have been confirmed during this Congress — thereby skewing the statistics significantly. He also said Democrats blocked some nominations that vulnerable GOP incumbents were seeking to confirm this year.

If Democrats don’t already rue Reid’s tenure as Majority Leader, they soon will.