A Look at the Judicial Nominees a Democratic Senator Deems ‘Truly Unqualified’


Published June 4, 2025

National Review Online

President Trump’s first batch of judicial nominees just had their hearing in front of the Judiciary Committee. According to Senator Richard Blumenthal, “If I had to compile a list of truly unqualified nominees for the federal bench, I couldn’t do better.”

Who are these unqualified nominees?

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Michael A. Fragoso is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in the Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture Program, where he writes and speaks on issues relating to the law, the federal judiciary, and Congress. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy: Per Curiam, and elsewhere.

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