Senate Confirms Trump’s Pick To Join Liberal
Senate Confirms Trump’s First 1st Circuit Court Nominee The U.S. Senate voted 52–46 along party lines to confirm Joshua Dunlap, a conservative lawyer from Maine, to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, giving President Donald Trump his first appointment to the Boston-based court. Until now, it was the only federal appeals court without a Republican-appointed judge. Dunlap’s confirmation marks a shift in the court’s balance,…