{"id":144572,"date":"2026-02-20T16:37:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/20\/the-president-has-a-personal-connection-to-his-latest-judicial-nominee\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:37:50","slug":"the-president-has-a-personal-connection-to-his-latest-judicial-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/20\/the-president-has-a-personal-connection-to-his-latest-judicial-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"The President Has A Personal Connection To His Latest Judicial Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What former personal Trump lawyer was nominated for a seat on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: He represented Donald Trump in Trump\u2019s appeal of the jury verdict finding him civilly liable for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/the-president-has-a-personal-connection-to-his-latest-judicial-nominee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The President Has A Personal Connection To His Latest Judicial Nominee<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What former personal Trump lawyer was nominated for a seat on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: He represented Donald Trump in Trump\u2019s appeal of the jury verdict finding him civilly liable for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/the-president-has-a-personal-connection-to-his-latest-judicial-nominee\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/the-president-has-a-personal-connection-to-his-latest-judicial-nominee\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! What former personal Trump lawyer was nominated for a seat on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals? Hint: He represented Donald Trump in Trump\u2019s appeal of the jury verdict finding him civilly liable for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll. See the answer on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":144573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2147830087-scaled-QzZ3mS.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}