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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Accountable.US is releasing new investigations into President Donald Trump’s latest slate of extreme, ideological judicial appointees. The new research reports are part of Accountable.US’s Judicial Nominations Watch, a one-stop shop for investigative research on Trump’s judicial nominees, shedding light on their radical records and the corporate and far-right interests propping them up.

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In his first term, Donald Trump and his special interest backers launched an all out campaign to capture the courts with far right judicial appointments. Now he’s picking up right where he left off by handpicking judicial nominees based on their loyalty to him instead of their commitment to serving with integrity on the bench. Just like Trump’s other judicial picks this year, his latest nominees hold dangerous records which threaten to radically politicize judicial independence, and take rights away from everyday Americans.”

Accountable.US President Caroline Ciccone

READ MORE ON TRUMP’S DANGEROUS JUDICIAL NOMINEES:

Jennifer Mascott, nominee for the Third Court of Appeals

Jennifer Mascott currently is senior counsel in the White House Counsel’s office. She previously served in the Department of Justice during the first Trump administration and has recently worked at conservative law schools, focusing on the administrative state and separation of powers. A nominee to a Delaware seat on the Third Circuit, Mascott is not admitted to practice law in Delaware and has few ties to the state or the circuit court. Following Emil Bove’s nomination, Mascott’s nomination represents the second close Trump ally appointed to the Third Circuit.

Robert Chamberlin, nominee for the District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Robert Chamberlin has served on the Mississippi Supreme Court since 2016, and previously served on the 17th Circuit District and as a state senator. In 2004, he sponsored a resolution to amend the Mississippi Constitution to define marriage as being only between a man and a woman, and to not recognize out-of-state same-sex marriages. He also sponsored another resolution calling on Congress to do the same at the federal level. If confirmed, he would bring his anti-LGBTQ+ record to the federal court amidst a conservative-led rollback of civil rights protections.

James Maxwell, nominee for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

James Maxwell has served on the Mississippi Supreme Court since 2016, and previously served on the Mississippi Court of Appeals and at the Department of Justice. In April 2025, Maxwell authored an opinion denying a transgender teenager’s name change petition, despite his parents’ consent. Maxwell referred to the transgender boy as a female and wrote that a name change was not in the teen’s best interest. In September 2024, Maxwell joined the majority in ruling that Willie Manning, a Black man on death row, did not have a right to have new evidence heard in court, despite the scientific evidence used to convict him falling apart. In 2020, Maxwell authored an opinion that upheld a 12-year prison sentence for a Black man who carried his cellphone into a county jail.

Harold Mooty, nominee for the Northern District of Alabama 

Mooty is a partner at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, where he focuses on contract disputes and business torts with a focus on health care clients accused of “medical malpractice and civil rights violations.” Mooty is the son of lawyer and fossil fuel lobbyist Harold Dean Mooty Jr., who lobbied for Petroleum Convenience Marketers of Alabama. If confirmed, Mooty would likely be a conservative voice on the bench for decades to come.

Edmund LaCour, nominee to the Northern District of Alabama

Edmund LaCour has served as the solicitor general of Alabama since 2019, where he has led the state in extreme anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ+, and anti-civil rights lawsuits. In 2019, Alabama passed a bill banning nearly all abortions and punishing abortion providers with up to 99 years in prison if convicted. LaCour represented Alabama in a challenge from the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, where he wrote that “each human life, from the moment of conception, is worthy of protection from lethal violence” and argued that previous Supreme Court abortion precedents were wrongly decided cases. LaCour also represented Alabama in a lawsuit seeking to stop the Equal Rights Amendment, where he warned that abortion rights would be expanded if the ERA was ratified. As solicitor general, LaCour defended Alabama’s gerrymandered maps before the Supreme Court, which found that the state unconstitutionally diluted the power of Black voters in its redistricting. 

Bill Lewis, nominee to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Bill Lewis is an associate justice on the Alabama Supreme Court. He previously was a judge on the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals and a prosecutor in Alabama’s Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, where he primarily focused on criminal cases. Judge Lewis’s nomination to the federal judiciary is his third nomination to a higher court in the last 16 months. Lewis has served as Chairman of the Elmore County Republican Executive Committee and the Alabama Republican Executive Committee. In January 2025, Lewis delivered a presentation to a state chapter of the Federalist Society on artificial intelligence.

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