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.