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    One Year In, Trump Has Kept A Major Promise: Reshaping The Federal Judiciary

    Conservatives are thrilled with President Trump for confirming a Supreme Court justice and 12 federal appeals court judges. Civil rights advocates are troubled by a lack of diversity.
    by Carrie Johnson Jan 21, 2018 2 minutes
    If conservatives were once hesitant about then-candidate Donald Trump, they're now enthusiastic about the direction he is taking the nation's corps of federal judges.

    President Trump is delivering on one of his biggest and most significant campaign promises: He is starting to reshape the federal judiciary.

    In his first year in office, Trump welcomed a new, young and conservative lawyer, Neil Gorsuch, onto the Supreme Court. And he won confirmation of 12 federal appeals court judges — a record.

    "We have many more coming," Trump told reporters this month.

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