President Donald Trump secured approval of his first judicial nominee of his second term, as the U.S. Senate confirmed a former law clerk to three members of the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority to a seat on a federal appeals court.

The pace of judicial confirmations is lagging compared with the president’s first stint in office, but more are in the pipeline.

Whitney Hermandorfer became the first far-right judicial nominee to be confirmed during Donald Trump's second term, but she won’t be the last.

The president also said "only really bad people" want to stoke theories about the well-connected sex offender.