Senate Confirms Third Black Trump Nominee to Judicial Post

The Senate cleared five more of Donald Trump’s judicial nominees on Wednesday, including one of his few black appointees.

Fulfilling his campaign promise to reshape the federal judiciary, Trump has now appointed 119 judges to lifetime seats, including 76 district judges, dozens of appeals court judges, and two U.S. Supreme Court justices.

The newly confirmed judges include Rodney Smith to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, who became the third of Trump’s black judicial appointees. The second, Eastern District of Virginia Judge Rossie Alston, was confirmed Monday.

Smith, confirmed by a vote of 78 to 18, ...