appointee
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s third appointee, was a clerk for Scalia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
But the margin of the vote split was stunning: The court, sitting en banc, ruled 10–5 against the Garden State’s laws, with Judge Arianna Freeman—a progressive appointee of President Joe Biden—writing the majority opinion.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Judge Katherine Polk Failla, an Obama appointee, issued the temporary restraining order the day after hearing oral argument.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
Russia's appointee in Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, has also ordered the closure of children's summer camps, which are widely popular among Russians.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Another Reagan appointee, Judge Stanley Marshall, told a reporter, “I’ve always been considered a fairly harsh sentencer, but it’s killing me that I’m sending so many low-level offenders away for all this time.”
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
