{"id":8685,"date":"2025-11-08T18:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=8685"},"modified":"2025-11-08T18:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:11:16","slug":"senate-confirms-trumps-pick-to-join-liberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=8685","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms Trump\u2019s Pick To Join Liberal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Senate Confirms Trump\u2019s First 1st Circuit Court Nominee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>U.S. Senate<\/strong>&nbsp;voted&nbsp;<strong>52\u201346<\/strong>&nbsp;along party lines to confirm&nbsp;<strong>Joshua Dunlap<\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a conservative lawyer from Maine, to the&nbsp;<strong>1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals<\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>giving President&nbsp;<strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>&nbsp;his first appointment to the Boston-based court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until now, it was the&nbsp;<strong>only federal appeals court<\/strong>&nbsp;without a Republican-appointed judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dunlap\u2019s confirmation marks a&nbsp;<strong>shift in the court\u2019s balance<\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>reflecting Trump\u2019s broader effort to&nbsp;<strong>reshape the federal judiciary<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His nomination followed Judge&nbsp;<strong>William Kayatta\u2019s<\/strong>&nbsp;move to senior status in 2024,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>after President&nbsp;<strong>Biden\u2019s nominee<\/strong>&nbsp;failed to advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dunlap, a partner at&nbsp;<strong>Pierce Atwood<\/strong>, pledged to \u201c<strong>uphold the Constitution<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He previously worked on cases involving&nbsp;<strong>voting systems, family leave,<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>campaign finance laws<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Senate also confirmed&nbsp;<strong>Eric Tung<\/strong>&nbsp;to the&nbsp;<strong>9th Circuit Court of Appeals<\/strong>&nbsp;by a&nbsp;<strong>52\u201345 vote<\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>narrowing its Democratic majority and extending Trump\u2019s judicial influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Confirms Trump\u2019s First 1st Circuit Court Nominee The&nbsp;U.S. Senate&nbsp;voted&nbsp;52\u201346&nbsp;along party lines to confirm&nbsp;Joshua Dunlap, a conservative lawyer from Maine, to the&nbsp;1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, giving President&nbsp;Donald Trump&nbsp;his first appointment to the Boston-based court. Until now, it was the&nbsp;only federal appeals court&nbsp;without a Republican-appointed judge. Dunlap\u2019s confirmation marks a&nbsp;shift in the court\u2019s balance,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8688,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions\/8688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}