5th Trump judicial nominee confirmed, outpacing Obama, Bush
Published August 03, 2017
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President Donald Trump has outpaced his immediate predecessors when it comes to having his choices for
federal judgeships confirmed.
The Senate this week approved a fifth Trump nominee, placing Trump on a faster pace for approvals than either President Barack Obama or President George W. Bush.
Most recently, Alabama lawyer Kevin Christopher Newsom was confirmed to a seat on
the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, on a 66-31 vote, with 16 Democrats joining the GOP on the affirmative side, the Washington Times reported.
Newsom was the third Trump pick for
circuit judge to be approved so far. Combined with one
district judge and the
Supreme Court appointment of Neil Gorsuch, the Trump administration and the Republican-led Senate
are well ahead of the normal pace for judicial approvals.
“The Trump administration has moved faster on filling judicial vacancies compared to the past administrations, thanks to its commitment to working with and extensively consulting all senators, regardless of political affiliation, to select high-caliber nominees,” Kelly Love, a White House spokesperson, told the newspaper....
...Trump began his bid to
reshape the lower federal courts in early May, when the White House announced
10 judicial nominees that officials described at the time as Trump’s
“third wave of federal judicial appointments.”
Two of the nominees
originally were on the list of
21 candidates that the Trump transition team considered for the Supreme Court vacancy left by
Antonin Scalia’s death. That seat was ultimately filled by
Gorsuch....