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Today, a U.S. Senate panel will consider President Trump's first batch of judicial nominees since he returned to the White House as the president seeks to further reshape a judiciary whose members have stymied parts of his agenda. Here's what to know: |
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- Five of Trump's 11 judicial nominees are slated to appear before the Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee today. The committee will weigh whether to recommend them for the full Senate's consideration.
- The nominees all have conservative bona fides that their supporters say will help Trump shift the ideological balance of the judiciary further to the right after making 234 appointments in his first term, which was a near-record for a president's first four years in office.
- Among today's nominees is Whitney Hermandorfer, whom Trump selected for a spot on the 6th Circuit. As a lawyer serving under Tennessee's Republican AG, Hermandorfer defended the state's abortion ban and challenged federal protections for transgender youth.
- Also up for consideration are four nominees to fill trial court vacancies in Missouri, including Joshua Divine, Missouri's solicitor general, who challenged former President Biden's student loan forgiveness efforts and has defended abortion and transgender healthcare restrictions.
- The hearing comes days after Trump broke with conservative legal activist Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society, who advised Trump on judicial appointments in his first term.
- Nate Raymond has more about Trump's judicial picks here.
| - Jurors are set to begin deliberating in disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's retrial on rape and sexual assault charges, a year after his conviction was thrown out by a state appeals.
- The 9th Circuit will consider whether to uphold a judge's ruling blocking the Trump administration from implementing an executive order curtailing the right to automatic birthright citizenship in the U.S. The court is the first federal appeals court to consider the question on the merits, after judges in at least four states nationally blocked the executive order's implementation. The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to partially stay three nationwide injunctions.
- U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly in D.C. will hold a preliminary injunction hearing in a case brought by several Planned Parenthoods challenging the U.S. Health Department decision to cancel funding for teen pregnancy prevention programs if the organization does not comply with President Trump's executive orders, including those targeting DEI programs and transgender individuals.
- U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego will hear arguments from the ACLU to enforce a legal services provision of a federal settlement in a lawsuit over family separation. The ACLU in April said the DOJ abruptly moved to end its contract with Acacia Center for Justice, a central provider assisting class members in their immigration cases.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes. |
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"Illogically, the government has far greater ability to bar someone from federal employment who has committed a serious crime or misconduct in the past than it does to remove someone who engages in the exact same behavior as a federal employee."
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—The U.S. Office of Personnel Management said in a proposal that would allow the office to direct other agencies to fire employees for conduct such as tax evasion, leaking sensitive information and refusing to testify in other workers' disciplinary cases. Read more. |
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Fish & Richardson's Christina Brown-Marshall, Juanita Brooks and Sarah Jack examine expert testimony in an era of skepticism. Read today's Attorney Analysis. |
Additional writing by Shruthi Krishnamurthy. |
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