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Hungarian Prime Minister\u00a0Viktor Orb\u00e1n<\/strong>\u00a0sharply criticized Ukraine\u2019s actions, noting that Hungary has provided energy assistance to Kyiv.<\/p>\n \u201cHungary supports Ukraine with electricity and fuel, and in return they strike the pipelines that supply us. This is not a friendly move,\u201d Orb\u00e1n said, adding his support for Trump\u2019s broader push for negotiations.<\/p>\n Trump responded publicly, telling Orb\u00e1n:\u00a0\u201cI do not like hearing this. I am very angry about it. You are my great friend.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The U.S. Senate has approved President Donald Trump\u2019s first and only nominee to the Boston-based federal appeals court. Until recently, most of the justices on this court were chosen by Democrats and often rejected his policy proposals.<\/p>\n The Republican-led Senate\u00a0voted\u00a052-46 along party lines to make Joshua Dunlap, a conservative lawyer from Maine who often worked on conservative legal cases, a life-tenured judge on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n As of Thursday, that court was the only one of the 13 appeals courts without any active judges appointed by Republican presidents. That has helped make district courts in New England a popular place for Democratic state attorneys general and advocacy groups to file cases against Trump\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n In his first term, Trump didn\u2019t name any judges to the 1st Circuit. At the start of his second term, he almost lost the chance to choose one when his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, put forth a nomination to fill a seat that U.S. Circuit Judge William Kayatta had held.<\/p>\n But Biden couldn\u2019t get Julia Lipez confirmed as his candidate before he departed office. Kayatta, who Democratic President Barack Obama appointed, formally became a senior in October 2024, just days before the presidential election that delivered Trump back to the White House.<\/p>\n In July, Trump chose Dunlap, a partner at the legal firm Pierce Atwood, to fill the open position. He said that if the Senate confirmed him, he would \u201cfearlessly defend our Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n Dunlap got his bachelor\u2019s degree from Pensacola Christian College and then went to Notre Dame Law School, where he graduated in 2008. During law school, he worked as an intern with what is now known as the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal rights nonprofit.<\/p>\n As a lawyer, he has worked on cases that have challenged Maine\u2019s paid family and medical leave program, the state\u2019s campaign finance rules, and the use of ranked-choice voting to run the state\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n This is the second judge approved this week.<\/p>\n The U.S. Senate also confirmed a former clerk for conservative Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and the late Antonin Scalia to be a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n The Republican-controlled Senate\u00a0voted\u00a052 to 45 in favor of Eric Tung, a partner at Jones Day. This made him the first judge President Donald Trump selected for the San Francisco-based appeals court during his second administration.<\/p>\n His confirmation brings the total number of judges Trump appointed to the 9th Circuit from 2017 to 2020 during his first term to 10. This weakens the power of Democratic appointees, who have long held sway on a court that was previously<\/p>\n thought to be the most liberal of all the federal appellate courts.<\/p>\n There are currently 16 Democratic appointees and 13 Republican appointees on the 9th Circuit, including Tung. In July, Trump nominated Tung to fill the seat that U.S. Circuit Judge Sandra Segal Ikuta had held. She stated in March that she would step down when a successor was named.<\/p>\n When Trump announced Tung\u2019s nomination, he called him a \u201cTough Patriot\u201d on social media and said he would preserve the Rule of Law in the \u201cmost RADICAL, Leftist States\u201d like California, Oregon, and Washington. These are three of the nine states that the 9th Circuit has jurisdiction over.<\/p>\n Tung is a partner at the law firm Jones Day in Los Angeles. Before that, he was a federal prosecutor and worked for the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n Tung worked as a clerk for Gorsuch twice: once when he was on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and again after Trump confirmed him to the Supreme Court in 2017. He had also worked for Scalia, who passed away in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ukraine\u2019s Unmanned Systems Forces, led by Commander\u00a0 The pipeline had already been targeted earlier this month, causing significant damage and fires before repairs were completed on\u00a0 Hungarian Prime Minister\u00a0Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u00a0sharply criticized Ukraine\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t