Trump Judge Picks Could Move Courts Further Right, Cement Legacy (Podcast)

Nov. 14, 2024, 7:52 PM UTC

President-elect Donald Trump is poised to further shape a federal judiciary he remade during his first term.

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Building on his historic number of appointments, including Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, Trump will likely choose nominees that are even more reliably conservative this time around. And, because of his success moving the judiciary to the right, Democrats seeking to challenge future Trump policies have fewer options for finding a receptive forum.

On this episode of our podcast, On The Merits, Bloomberg Law reporters Tiana Headley and Suzanne Monyak, along with Bloomberg Law columnist and Above the Law founder David Lat, discuss how the Trump team will select judges, who those nominees could be, and what this means for litigators.

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To contact the reporter on this story: Jessie Kokrda Kamens in Washington at jkamens@bloomberglaw.com

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Andrew Satter at asatter@bloombergindustry.com

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