January 4, 2018 / Jonathan Adler on President Trump's . . .

. . . judicial nominees.

[Last] week, the Senate confirmed Justice Don Willett and James Ho to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Leonard Grasz to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. These three were the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth circuit nominee confirmed this year, setting a record for the number of appellate nominees confirmed during a President's first year (in addition to the confirmation of Justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court).  

It is not simply the number of appellate judges confirmed, but the caliber. Trump's appellate nominees have been . . .