President Donald Trump is asserting far greater control over the judicial nomination process in his second term, determined not to repeat what he views as past missteps in selecting judges who later bucked his agenda.

U.S. President Donald Trump's first batch of judicial nominees since returning to the White House is set to go before a U.S. Senate panel as the Republican looks to further reshape a judiciary whose members have stymied parts of his agenda.

Donald Trump’s first five judicial nominees of his second term all reported membership in the Federalist Society, as the president condemned the attorney networking organization and its former chairman Leonard Leo for giving him “bad advice” on judicial nominations during his first term.