To Announce Slate of Conservative Court Nominees
By ADAM LIPTAK
MAY 7, 2017
WASHINGTON — Having filled a Supreme Court vacancy, President Trump is turning his attention to the more than 120 openings on the lower federal courts. On Monday, he will announce a slate of 10 nominees to those courts, a senior White House official said, the first in what could be near monthly waves of nominations ...
... “The Trump administration has made clear its intention to benefit from Republican obstructionism and to pack the federal courts with ultraconservatives given a stamp of approval by the Federalist Society,” said Nan Aron, the president of the Alliance for Justice ...
The candidates to be announced Monday include ... Justice Joan L. Larsen, a former law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia and law professor at the University of Michigan, <and> Justice David R. Stras, a former law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas and law professor at the University of Minnesota ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/trump-lower-court-nominees-conservatives.html
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