{"id":147865,"date":"2026-04-03T10:48:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=147865"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:48:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:48:41","slug":"trump-nominates-florida-appeals-court-chief-judge-to-federal-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/03\/trump-nominates-florida-appeals-court-chief-judge-to-federal-bench\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Nominates Florida Appeals Court Chief Judge to Federal Bench"},"content":{"rendered":"

If confirmed, Kuntz will be the seventh judge Trump has appointed to the Southern District of Florida. It’s the court where the president’s personal legal matters play out, and Trump has seen several cases assigned to judges who have him to thank for their lifetime seats on the bench.<\/p>\n

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If confirmed, Kuntz will be the seventh judge Trump has appointed to the Southern District of Florida. It’s the court where the president’s personal legal matters play out, and Trump has seen several cases assigned to judges who have him to thank for their lifetime seats on the bench.<\/p>\n

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If confirmed, Kuntz will be the seventh judge Trump has appointed to the Southern District of Florida. It’s the court where the president’s personal legal matters play out, and Trump has seen several cases assigned to judges who have him to thank for their lifetime seats on the bench. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If confirmed, Kuntz will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147865","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=147865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}