Roll Call: Trump’s 2025 saw 26 lifetime judicial nominees approved
This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on December 30, 2025.
Christine Chen Zinner, the federal research and advocacy director at the progressive Alliance for Justice, said one reason Trump’s second-term pace is currently slower than his Biden’s might be because there has to be “additional vetting to see how loyal someone might be.”
“A lot of the nominees we’re seeing now seem to almost have an unfettered loyalty to Trump, and vetting out who might fit this mold could possibly be taking more time,” she said.