Trump said in a social media post that he is nominating Whitney Hermandorfer, who serves as a conservative majority for three members of the U.S. Supreme Court to fill a vacancy in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. senator.
“Whitney is a fighter and will inspire our confidence in our legal system,” Trump wrote.
The nomination is the first of more than 100 nominations Trump has filed in federal court over the next four years, which helps further place his conservative stamps on the judiciary, which has put his frustrations hindered a key part of his immigration and cost-cutting agenda.
Trump completed 234 judicial appointments during his first term, including three members of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 Conservative majority.
As a member of Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti's office, Hermandorfer defended nearly all the state's ban on abortion and challenged Biden-era rules that prohibited schools and universities from discriminating against trans students.
If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Hermandorfer will fill U.S. Circuit Judge Jane Branstetter Stranch's current seat on the Sixth Tour.
Senior status is a form of semi-retirement for judges. The president may name new full-time judges to fill the seats of those judges.
Biden nominated Karla Campbell of Tennessee, one of Stranch's former staff members, to fill her seat.
But after the November election, Senate Democrats and Republicans cut a deal that offered a way to vote for about a dozen Biden’s remaining trial court nominees in exchange for not pushing forward the four appeals court nominees, including Campbell.
A spokesman for Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer at the time said all four lacked enough votes. Biden eventually received confirmation of 235 judicial candidates, more than Trump in his first term.
