The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to advance President Trump's first five judicial nominees of his second term at a meeting that was previewed in this morning's Daily Docket.
The Republican-led panel voted 12-10 in favor of sending Whitney Hermandorfer's nomination to the full Senate for it to consider whether to confirm her to a life-tenured position on the Cincinnati-based 6th Circuit. Hermandorfer is a former clerk to three members of the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority.
The panel also advanced the nominations of four candidates to serve as federal trial court judges in Missouri's Eastern District over the opposition of Democrats who assailed some of the nominees' records on abortion and LGBTQ rights.
They are the first of the 12 judicial nominees the president has announced to date to clear the committee. The votes set the stage for the Senate to confirm them and add to the 234 judicial appointments Trump made in his first term. Read more from Nate Raymond.
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