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Reuters
28-05-2025
- General
- Reuters
Trump nominates Emil Bove to serve as federal appellate judge
May 28 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he was nominating Justice Department official Emil Bove, who previously defended Trump in a criminal case stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, to serve as a federal appeals court judge. Trump in a post on his social media platform Truth Social said he is nominating Bove, who serves as principal associate deputy attorney general, to serve as a life-tenured judge on the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. "He will end the Weaponization of Justice, restore the Rule of Law, and do anything else that is necessary to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN," Trump wrote. "Emil Bove will never let you down!" The announcement brought to six the number of judicial nominees the Republican president has announced in his second term in office and the second for one of the 13 federal appeals courts that sit below the U.S. Supreme Court. 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. Bove, a former federal prosecutor, represented Trump at his criminal trial in Manhattan last year alongside Todd Blanche, who is currently deputy attorney general. Trump was convicted on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, but is appealing. During the early weeks of the Trump administration, before Blanche was confirmed for his position, Bove served as acting deputy attorney general.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Yahoo
Nominees for Davies circuit, district judgeships announced
The state Judicial Nominating Commission announced Thursday the nominees to fill the judicial vacancies on Daviess County Circuit Court and Daviess County District Court. Daviess makes up the 6th Judicial Circuit/District, and the vacancies are in Division 1 for District Court and Division 1 for Circuit Court. Nominees for the circuit judgeship are Owensboro attorneys Bryce Lowry Caldwell, William Russell Duty III and Leigh Ann Jackson. Caldwell is a law partner with the firm of Gordon, Goetz, Johnson & Caldwell; Duty is a solo law practitioner; and Jackson began serving as a prosecutor with the Commonwealth's Attorney Office that serves Daviess County in April after 15 years with the public defender's office. The circuit judicial seat became vacant when Judge Jay A. Wethington retired Feb. 28. Circuit Court is the court of general jurisdiction that hears civil matters involving more than $5,000, capital offenses and felonies, divorces, adoptions, termination of parental rights, land dispute title cases and contested probate cases. In counties with a Family Court division of Circuit Court, Family Court judges have primary jurisdiction in cases involving family issues, including divorces, adoption, child support, domestic violence and juvenile status offenses. Nominees for the district judgeship are Owensboro attorneys Duty — he applied for both vacancies — Phillip Jermaine Page and Brian Louis Quattrocchi. Page is a staff attorney for Daviess Family Court; and Quattrocchi is a prosecutor with the Commonwealth's Attorney Office that serves Daviess County. The district judicial seat became vacant when Judge David C. Payne, who was serving as a Daviess District Court judge, was elected to Circuit Court in November 2024. District Court judges handle juvenile matters, city and county ordinances, misdemeanors, violations, traffic offenses, probate of wills, arraignments, felony probable cause hearings, small claims involving $2,500 or less, civil cases involving $5,000 or less, voluntary and involuntary mental commitments and cases relating to domestic violence and abuse.
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)
