Trump Judges Most Likely to Be Confirmed Before New Senate Takes Over
Summary
Senate Republicans have a limited lame-duck session to act on President Donald Trump’s pending judicial nominees before Democrats take control of the chamber in January. Three nominees who have cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee are described as the most likely to receive confirmation votes before the session ends.Key Facts
- The Senate has confirmed 57 judges since Trump’s second term began in 2025.
- The article reports 28 federal judicial vacancies and 16 nominees awaiting Senate action: 11 for existing vacancies and five for future vacancies.
- The three nominees identified as most likely to be confirmed are Anna St. John, Daniel Desmond Domenico and Gregory Carl Cook.
- St. John was nominated to the Fifth Circuit and cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 24.
- Domenico was nominated to the Tenth Circuit and cleared the Judiciary Committee in July.
- Cook was nominated for a district judgeship in Alabama and cleared the Judiciary Committee in September.
- A White House official told Newsweek that the administration expects all pending judicial nominees to be confirmed this year.
- Federal judicial nominees pass through the Senate Judiciary Committee before a full Senate confirmation vote, which requires a simple majority.
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