{"id":11313,"date":"2025-07-15T10:21:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-confirms-first-new-judge-of-trumps-second-term-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:21:02","slug":"senate-confirms-first-new-judge-of-trumps-second-term-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-confirms-first-new-judge-of-trumps-second-term-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms first new judge of Trump&#8217;s second term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has voted to confirm the first judicial nominee of Donald Trump&rsquo;s second term, marking the resumption of the president&#8217;s longstanding campaign to install a conservative tilt across the federal judiciary. Whitney Hermandorfer was confirmed in a 46-42 vote along party lines to replace an Obama-era appointee on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals &mdash; pushing the court which hears appeals from Kentucky&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/14\/congress\/senate-confirms-hermandorfer-00451602\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has voted to confirm the first judicial nominee of Donald Trump&rsquo;s second term, marking the resumption of the president&#8217;s longstanding campaign to install a conservative tilt across the federal judiciary. Whitney Hermandorfer was confirmed in a 46-42 vote along party lines to replace an Obama-era appointee on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}