Seat on Conservative Fifth Circuit Tough for Trump to Fill

President Donald Trump has made good on his promise to reshape the federal judiciary with conservatives, but filling one seat on arguably the most conservative U.S. appellate court has been one of the hardest to get done.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will on Wednesday hear from Cory Wilson, a Mississippi state court judge with a penchant for Twitter who’s the president’s second nominee to fill a longstanding vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Wilson emerged after Trump’s previous nominee for the spot on the New Orleans-based court, Halil Suleyman Ozerden, faltered over doubts by key ...