Trump Trial Court Pick Grilled on Abortion, Qualifications

Republicans got a step closer to flipping a New York-based appeals court to majority Republican-appointees and to chipping away at the Democratic-appointed hold on the West Coast appeals court that’s been a foil to Republican legal maneuvers.

But it was one of President Donald Trump’s trial court picks that got all of the Senate Judiciary Committee scrutiny Sept. 25, stemming from the American Bar Association deeming her unqualified for the bench, as well as her work on abortion issues—"pro-life” or “anti-choice,” depending which senator was talking.

Trump’s nominees for the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Ninth Circuits, ...