President Donald Trump on Friday announced plans to nominate a Kentucky federal judge and former law professor who clerked for now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to a seat on the D.C. Circuit.
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President Donald Trump on Monday announced plans to nominate a Mississippi Court of Appeals judge who previously served as a Republican state lawmaker to a long-vacant seat on the Fifth Circuit.
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Virginia Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine sent a letter to the White House recommending President Donald Trump nominate two magistrate judges for a position on a federal court in their state.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee approved four of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees on Thursday, including picks for courts in Florida, Oklahoma and Alabama.
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A controversial nominee picked by President Donald Trump to fill one of three empty seats on the Federal Election Commission was met with heavy fire Tuesday from Democrats accusing him of past schemes to roll back voting rights.
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Thomas Cullen made it his mission as a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney to put white supremacists behind bars, and now is soaring through his nomination process to serve as a federal judge in Virginia.
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Immigrant advocates on Monday praised a federal judge’s order setting aside asylum directives made by top immigration official Ken Cuccinelli, whose appointment by President Donald Trump was deemed unlawful by the court.
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President Donald Trump again nominated Texas Congressman John Ratcliffe to serve as director of national intelligence Friday, a move that comes just months after the Republican lawmaker’s first nomination fell apart amid closer scrutiny of his record as a prosecutor.
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The ascendancy of his administration’s most staunch defenders continues as President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced the latest shakeup to leadership atop the U.S. intelligence community.
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President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Federal Reserve touted her credentials in written testimony Thursday and said she would “work collegially” if approved.
Read moreThe Senate on Wednesday confirmed four of President Donald Trump’s nominees to federal courts in Alaska, Missouri, Illinois and New York.
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The Senate on Tuesday narrowly confirmed the former solicitor general of Alabama to a seat on the 11th Circuit, over objections from Democrats critical of his record on voting rights.
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Democratic hopeful Elizabeth Warren released a plan Tuesday to systematically undo President Donald Trump’s policies and appointments and rebuild the country in a starkly different image.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced the nomination of an Alabama federal judge President Donald Trump has tapped for a seat on the 11th Circuit, as well as four other judicial nominees.
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Beyond deciding the momentous question of whether President Donald Trump will remain in office, the Senate impeachment trial slated to begin this week will also hold up the Republican project of confirming the president’s judicial nominees.
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Senate Democrats on Wednesday grilled a former Republican Mississippi state lawmaker now up for a federal judgeship on his political past, including his support for overturning the Supreme Court’s landmark abortion decision and his record on issues from guns to voting rights.
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On the heels of a House vote to impeach President Donald Trump, the Senate confirmed a dozen of his nominees for seats on federal courts across the country.
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The Senate on Wednesday confirmed to a seat on the Ninth Circuit a Justice Department attorney the American Bar Association found not qualified for the position in part due to concerns about his ability to be fair to gay and lesbian litigants.
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The Senate on Tuesday confirmed a California federal prosecutor to a seat on the Ninth Circuit over the objections of the state’s Democratic senators, who faulted him for a thin record of handling appellate cases.
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The Senate on Thursday confirmed two nominees to federal district courts in North and South Carolina, one of which will end the longest judicial vacancy in the country.
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