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Trump names two new nominees to serve as appeals court judges
Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he is nominating a Maine litigator and a former clerk to a pair of conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices to serve as life-tenured judges on two federal appeals courts.
Trump in posts on his social media platform Truth Social said he is nominating Joshua Dunlap to join the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Eric Tung to serve on the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The two picks to serve as life-tenured judges brought to 14 the number of judicial nominees announced by Trump in his second term. Trump has now nominated four appeals court judges, as he looks to add to the 234 judicial appointments in his first term in office.
Dunlap, a Maine-based lawyer at the law firm Pierce Atwood, has been nominated to fill the lone vacancy on the Boston-based 1st Circuit, which currently is the only one of the 13 appeals courts with no active judges appointed by Republican presidents.
Former President Joe Biden had sought to fill the vacancy and solidify a six-judge court with only Democratic-appointed judges, but did not secure confirmation of his nominee, Julia Lipez, before he left office.
Trump in posts on his social media platform Truth Social said he is nominating Joshua Dunlap to join the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Eric Tung to serve on the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The two picks to serve as life-tenured judges brought to 14 the number of judicial nominees announced by Trump in his second term. Trump has now nominated four appeals court judges, as he looks to add to the 234 judicial appointments in his first term in office.
Dunlap, a Maine-based lawyer at the law firm Pierce Atwood, has been nominated to fill the lone vacancy on the Boston-based 1st Circuit, which currently is the only one of the 13 appeals courts with no active judges appointed by Republican presidents.
Former President Joe Biden had sought to fill the vacancy and solidify a six-judge court with only Democratic-appointed judges, but did not secure confirmation of his nominee, Julia Lipez, before he left office.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-names-two-new-nominees-to-serve-as-appeals-court-judges/ar-AA1HRwH7