A pair of federal prosecutors are President Donald Trump’s picks to serve as judges in a district court along the US-Mexico border.
Trump announced on social media Wednesday he was nominating Arthur “Rob” Jones and John Marck to seats on the Southern District of Texas.
Trump didn’t specify where Jones and Marck would sit, but Texas’ Republican senators had recommended Jones for a seat in the McAllen courthouse.
Marck recently became the acting US attorney for the Southern District of Texas, after the previous top prosecutor, Nicholas Ganjei, was sworn in as a federal judge in Houston. Marck previously worked as the first assistant US attorney, the No. 2 job in the office, and was a prosecutor in New York before moving to Texas.
Jones has also served in the US attorney’s office leadership, as the executive assistant US attorney. He’s worked in the office since 2002, and was earlier a judge advocate and officer in the US Air Force’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps.
There are two remaining judicial vacancies on the Southern District of Texas.
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