Trump also nominated Kyle Dudek, John Guard, Jordan E. Pratt, and Anne-Leigh Gaylord Moe to serve as Judges on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, and Ed Artau to serve as a Judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday limited the American Bar Association's decades-old role in rating candidates for life-tenured positions in the federal judiciary, curtailing its ability to vet new nominations by Republican President Donald Trump.

Bondi’s announcement comes one day after Trump nominated a top DOJ official who previously worked as one of Trump’s criminal defense attorneys, Emil Bove, to a lifetime appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.