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Fox News
07-05-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
President Trump announces multiple judicial nominees, accuses court system of blocking him from doing his job
President Donald Trump – whose second-term agenda has been bogged down by judicial roadblocks – announced several judicial picks in Truth Social posts on Tuesday, and complained in a post on Wednesday that the judiciary is preventing him from executing the job Americans elected him to do. "Our Court System is not letting me do the job I was Elected to do. Activist judges must let the Trump Administration deport murderers, and other criminals who have come into our Country illegally, WITHOUT DELAY!!!" he declared in a Wednesday post. Trump announced Missouri Principal Deputy Solicitor General Maria Lanahan as a nominee to sit as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, calling her "a true patriot" in a Tuesday post. He also picked Judge Cristian Stevens to serve on the same court, calling Stevens, who currently serves on the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, "a Great Patriot," in another post. TRUMP FIELDS QUESTION ABOUT HIS TIMELINE FOR JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS: 'WE'RE PUTTING 'EM IN RAPIDLY' The president also selected Zachary Bluestone to sit on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, referring to him as "a True Legal Warrior" in a Tuesday post. A Tuesday White House press release notes that "Zachary Bluestone is appellate chief and a violent crimes prosecutor in the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Missouri." Trump is tapping Show-Me State Solicitor General Joshua Divine for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri as well as the Western District of Missouri. TILLIS PUTS ONUS ON TRUMP TO AVOID BOASBERG PICKING US ATTORNEY AFTER MARTIN'S NOMINATION APPEARS SUNK "I am proud to nominate Edward Aloysius O'Connell to serve as Associate Judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Eddie will help fix Violent Crime in the City by restoring the RULE OF LAW to Washington, D.C.," Trump declared in a post on Tuesday. According to the White House release, "Edward Aloysius O'Connell is Chief of Staff and Deputy General Counsel of the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board." The president's judicial picks will need to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS RETURN OF DEPORTED MIGRANT TO US, REJECTING TRUMP REQUEST Last week, Trump announced his pick of Whitney Hermandorfer to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, calling her "a Fighter who will inspire confidence in our Legal System." She is the Strategic Litigation Unit director with the office of the Tennessee state attorney general. Fox News' Luke Trevisan contributed to this report
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump ramps up judicial nominations with four picks in Missouri
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he was nominating four Missouri lawyers with experience as prosecutors or working under the state's Republican attorney general to serve as federal trial court judges in the state. The new nominees brought the total number of judicial nominations made by Trump in his second term to five, after the Republican president on Thursday announced his first pick to serve as life-tenured federal judge. Trump is expected to have the chance to make more than 100 judicial nominations over the next four years, adding to the conservative stamp he made on the judiciary with 234 appointments during his first term. The latest nominees included two members of Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey's legal team, Joshua Divine, the state's solicitor general, and Maria Lanahan, who serves as principal deputy solicitor general. Bailey in a statement called Divine the architect of the state's successful challenge to a plan by former Democratic President Joe Biden's administration to forgive student loans and said he spearheaded the defense of the state's restrictions on treatments for minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria. "Whether it was dismantling the Biden administration's unlawful student loan bailout or shutting down radical attempts to harm Missouri children, Josh brought precision, grit, and leadership every step of the way," Bailey said. Trump in a social media post said that as a former clerk to conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Divine "knows what is required to protect the Rule of Law and Constitutional Rights for the Great People of Missouri." If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Divine and his fellow nominees would serve as judges on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The other nominees include two current and former federal prosecutors, Zachary Bluestone, who serves in the U.S. Attorney's Office in St. Louis, and Judge Cristian Stevens, who serves on the Missouri Court of Appeals. (Reporting by Jasper Ward; Editing by Ryan Patrick Jones and Stephen Coates)
