Neomi Rao, President Trump's nominee to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. [Two GOP senators said to express concern over Trump’s appeals court pick]Trump nominated Rao in November to replace Brett M. Kavanaugh, who is now a Supreme Court justice, on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. The GOP establishment has celebrated the president’s success in installing a record number of appeals court judges nationwide in his first two years in office. [Two years in, Trump’s appeals court confirmations at a historic high point]Hawley, who was Missouri’s attorney general, graduated from Yale Law School and served as a Supreme Court clerk. The court also has been a steppingstone to the Supreme Court with four of the nine sitting justices having served on the D.C.

Source: Washington Post February 28, 2019 17:01 UTC