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Judge Brett Kavanaugh and his family with President Donald Trump in 2018. 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 ...
As of March 1, 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. There ...
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 ...
In his first term, Trump nominated hundreds of federal judges and had the chance to appoint three Supreme Court justices, a rare feat for any president in under four years.
President Trump on Saturday announced that he is nominating Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Sept. 18.
Both Barrett and Trump alluded to the ugly confirmation fight likely to take place on Capitol Hill in the coming weeks. Trump officially names Amy Coney Barrett as Supreme Court nominee at White House
With Trump's victory and upcoming GOP control of the Senate, the Supreme Court looms large. Trump appointed a third of the current Supreme Court in just one term.
The Senate received word from the president (when a Supreme Court nomination becomes official) on September 29. [1] On October 26, the Senate voted to confirm Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court, with 52 of 53 Republicans voting in favor, while Susan Collins and all 47 Democrats voted against; Barrett took the judicial oath on October 27. [2]