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As of January 20, 2025, the United States Senate has confirmed 234 Article III judges nominated by Trump: three associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, 54 judges for the United States courts of appeals, 174 judges for the United States district courts, and three judges for the United States Court of International Trade.
On June 27, 2018, Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the Supreme Court, effective July 31, [29] [30] giving Trump an opportunity to send a second Supreme Court nominee to the Senate for confirmation. Kavanaugh was officially nominated on July 9, selected from among a list of "25 highly qualified potential nominees" considered ...
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest ranking judicial body in the United States.Established by Article III of the Constitution, the Court was organized by the 1st United States Congress through the Judiciary Act of 1789, which specified its original and appellate jurisdiction, created 13 judicial districts, and fixed the size of the Supreme Court at six, with one chief justice ...
Patrick Wyrick: On April 10, 2018, Trump nominated Wyrick, an Oklahoma Supreme Court justice, to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. [290] He was nominated to the seat vacated by Judge David Lynn Russell, who assumed senior status on July 7, 2013. [255]
Donald Trump touts his transformation of the U.S. Supreme Court as one of his presidency's greatest accomplishments. With three Trump-appointed justices leading a conservative majority, the court ...
If Trump were to get two more Supreme Court picks, he will have appointed over half the court, which no president has done since Franklin D. Roosevelt and the subsequent creation of the ...
Fifty years ago, three of the justices Richard Nixon appointed to the Supreme Court joined in an 8-0 decision in the Watergate tapes case that effectively ended his presidency, ruling only 16 days ...
The balance of the Court shifted with the retirement of Justice Van Devanter 1937 and of Justice Sutherland the following year, while Justice Butler died in November 1939. By the end of 1941, Roosevelt had appointed seven Supreme Court justices and elevated Harlan Fiske Stone to chief justice. [17]