The Daily Beast: Trump’s Sinister Plot to Remake America’s Judiciary
This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on February 13, 2026.
Beyond their nominations reflecting Trump’s wish to Make America White Again, there is a noticeable unanimity across these candidates in their responses to questions about the 2020 presidential election in their Senate confirmation hearings, as though they’d been coached. (Trump, of course, remains fixated on cementing his alleged victory in 2020, an election he says was rigged.)
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Some have direct ties to Trump, like Emil Bove—formerly the president’s personal attorney. Confirmed to a lifetime appointment on the Third Circuit, Bove tops the list of what the advocacy group Alliance For Justice (AFJ) calls “Trump’s Allegiant: The Lowlights.”
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“When you have so many judges who have a history of undermining voting rights, you’re laying a fertile groundwork to put those rights at risk,” says Christine Chen Zinner, Federal Research and Advocacy Director at the Alliance for Justice.