This may mean that the Fifth Circuit’s jurisprudence will be overturned even more by the Supreme Court in the future.
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The opportunity is there now [but] they may be having some reservations about being replaced with Trump’s brand of Republican judicial nominee.

— Daniel Walters, a professor at Texas A&M University School of Law, in comments given to Bloomberg Law, on whether the Fifth Circuit will grow more conservative under president-elect Donald Trump’s second term in the White House. Six of the circuit’s 17 judges are eligible to take senior status, and four of them were nominated by Republican presidents. These judges are considered to be much more moderate than the six who joined the court during Trump’s first term.

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