Trump begins nominating judges

President Trump has begun the process of staffing judicial vacancies.The big picture: During his first term, Trump flipped the federal judiciary with the help of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), together setting a record on the number of judges confirmed.Trump 2.0 is having a slower start, though there are only 46 judicial vacancies to fill, compared to more than 100 at the start of his first term.Zoom in: Trump made first judicial nomination of his second term last week, naming Whitney Hermandorfer as his pick. The lawyer served under Tennessee's Republican attorney general.The president announced a series of nominations Tuesday for judges to serve on the U.S. District Court in Missouri, including Zachary Bluestone, Joshua Divine and Maria Lanahan.Bluestone serves as appellate chief in the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of Missouri, and Lanahan is the state's principal deputy solicitor general.Divine has clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas and previously served as chief counsel to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.).Between the lines: Trump can again nominate GOP-friendly judges to fill lifetime appointments across the country, especially as he questions the courts and tries to weigh the power of the executive branch against that of the judiciary. He and his allies have long railed against a justice system they view as unfair toward conservatives, with frequent rants against district judges and their ability to block executive actions nationwide, Axios' Stef W. Kight reports.Trump and his allies have recently pushed to have judges who did not rule in favor of the administration impeached.Zoom out: Republicans have so far been slower to begin the process of judicial confirmations compared to former President Biden and Trump in 2017.By this point in the first Trump term, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch had already been confirmed and a federal judge was in the pipeline for a May approval, Senate records show.At this point in Biden's term, the first batch of judges had been sent to the Senate and seven were confirmed in June.Flashback: 234 federal judges were confirmed under the first Trump administration — including three members of the Supreme Court.Go deeper: Senate awaits Trump judges

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