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As of February 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 ...
The court — which includes three conservative justices appointed by Trump — was asked to consider whether a landmark decision on presidential “immunity” also extends to Trump as a private ...
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 ...
With the exception of temporary recess appointments, in order for a Justice to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court, they must be approved by a vote of the United States Senate after being nominated by the president of the United States Senate. Not all nominees put forward by presidents have advanced to confirmation votes.
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 ...
A Trump-appointed Supreme Court majority. If Trump gets two appointments, he would be the first president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to have appointed a majority of justices to the court, a ...
Ginsburg died in September 2020 — and Trump immediately replaced her with Justice Amy Coney Barrett, then 48, cementing the court’s current 6–3 conservative majority right before he lost the ...
Approximately 40 percent of Trump’s appellate nominees clerked for a Supreme Court justice, and about 80 percent clerked on a federal court of appeals. That compares to less than a quarter of Obama’s nominees who clerked on the Supreme Court, and less than half with a federal appellate clerkship.