{"id":160337,"date":"2026-08-13T07:42:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=160337"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:42:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:42:57","slug":"trump-picks-arkansas-federal-judge-for-8th-circuit-vacancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/13\/trump-picks-arkansas-federal-judge-for-8th-circuit-vacancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Picks Arkansas Federal Judge for 8th Circuit Vacancy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lee Rudofsky’s confirmation would make the 11-member U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit\u2014which covers Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota\u2014the first federal appellate court with a majority of active judges appointed by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

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Lee Rudofsky’s confirmation would make the 11-member U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit\u2014which covers Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota\u2014the first federal appellate court with a majority of active judges appointed by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

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Lee Rudofsky’s confirmation would make the 11-member U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit\u2014which covers Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota\u2014the first federal appellate court with a majority of active judges appointed by President Donald Trump. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lee Rudofsky’s confirmation would make the 11-member U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":160338,"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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/legal-news-T5guPn.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160337","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=160337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160339,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160337\/revisions\/160339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}