My new Confirmation Tales post begins:

President Trump recently announced that he would nominate Whitney Hermandorfer to a Sixth Circuit seat in Tennessee. Hermandorfer is Trump’s first appellate pick. Her selection provides occasion to survey first appellate picks by other presidents and to see what lessons they might provide. Especially as the judicial-confirmation wars have escalated, a White House will see a president’s first appellate pick as an opportunity to send a message.

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