Bloomberg Law: Trump Changes How Judicial Nominees Get Publicly Revealed
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This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on November 10, 2025.
Trump’s Louisiana district nominees in October had the shortest turnaround between public disclosure and their confirmation hearing, which was two days. The announcement came Oct. 20, and the hearing was Oct. 22. The liberal judicial advocacy group Alliance for Justice disclosed the nominees on its website several weeks earlier.
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But critics say shorter pre-hearing windows provides less transparency.
“The public is left in the dark about lifetime nominees to our federal courts,” said Christine Chen Zinner, federal research and advocacy director at Alliance for Justice.