Schiff, Schwartz Left Off Trump’s List of 21 Nominees Renominated

President Donald Trump intends to renominate 21 judicial candidates whom the Senate didn’t confirm last year, the White House announced Jan. 5.

The list includes federal district and appellate court nominees for seats in Alabama, Colorado, Louisiana, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin—"states that are suffering from judicial emergencies,” the Trump Administration said in a press release.

The list doesn’t include Damien Schiff and Stephen Schwartz, who were both nominated to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims last year.

They were “very controversial nominees” and the Trump administration may have wished to avoid a fight over them, ...