{"id":28472,"date":"2025-11-08T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new50.info\/?p=28472"},"modified":"2025-11-08T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T15:56:09","slug":"senate-confirms-trumps-pick-to-join-liberal-majority-us-appeals-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new50.info\/?p=28472","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms Trump\u2019s Pick To Join Liberal-Majority US Appeals Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"79\" data-end=\"484\">The U.S. Senate has confirmed <strong data-start=\"109\" data-end=\"126\">Joshua Dunlap<\/strong>, a conservative lawyer from Maine, to the <strong data-start=\"169\" data-end=\"219\">Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals<\/strong>, marking President <strong data-start=\"239\" data-end=\"275\">Donald Trump\u2019s first appointment<\/strong> to a court long dominated by Democratic appointees. The Senate voted <strong data-start=\"345\" data-end=\"372\">52\u201346 along party lines<\/strong>, giving Trump his first opportunity to influence the appellate court overseeing federal cases in New England.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"486\" data-end=\"914\">Until now, the 1st Circuit had been the only one of the <strong data-start=\"542\" data-end=\"571\">13 federal appeals courts<\/strong> without a Republican-appointed judge \u2014 a key venue for challenges to Trump\u2019s policies during his previous term. Dunlap\u2019s confirmation reshapes that balance, aligning with the administration\u2019s ongoing push to remake the federal judiciary. The vacancy arose when <strong data-start=\"833\" data-end=\"858\">Judge William Kayatta<\/strong>, an Obama appointee, took senior status in late 2024.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"916\" data-end=\"1305\">Dunlap, a partner at <strong data-start=\"937\" data-end=\"958\">Pierce Atwood LLP<\/strong>, earned degrees from <strong data-start=\"980\" data-end=\"1011\">Pensacola Christian College<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1016\" data-end=\"1041\">Notre Dame Law School<\/strong>. Known for his work on constitutional and regulatory cases, he has previously challenged Maine\u2019s voting system, family leave laws, and campaign finance restrictions. In his confirmation hearing, Dunlap pledged to interpret the law \u201cfaithfully and without bias.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1307\" data-end=\"1641\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The Senate also confirmed <strong data-start=\"1333\" data-end=\"1346\">Eric Tung<\/strong> to the <strong data-start=\"1354\" data-end=\"1391\">9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals<\/strong> in a 52\u201345 vote, giving Trump his first appointment to that influential West Coast court. A former clerk for <strong data-start=\"1501\" data-end=\"1526\">Justices Neil Gorsuch<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1531\" data-end=\"1549\">Antonin Scalia<\/strong>, Tung\u2019s addition further underscores Trump\u2019s growing judicial footprint in his second term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Senate has confirmed Joshua Dunlap, a conservative lawyer from Maine, to the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, marking President Donald Trump\u2019s first appointment&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ 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