Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Fight Shows How Much He Reshaped the Courts

As former President Donald Trump’s legal entanglements wind their way through the federal courts, he continues to face strong odds of landing before a judge he appointed.

More than half of the active judges on the federal appeals court poised to hear the latest phase of Trump’s fight with the Justice Department over the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home got their posts through Trump’s aggressive remaking of the US judiciary.

From the start, his push for a special master to review the records seized as part of a criminal investigation into whether he mishandled classified information highlighted the ...