Today, President Donald Trump signed a new Executive Order (EO) that will help protect vulnerable children by strengthening child-welfare programs across the country through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

In an unprecedented ruling on Wednesday morning, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan to dismiss the criminal case against General Michael Flynn. In a 2-1 decision, the court granted General Flynn’s petition and directed the district court to dismiss the case.

Judge Neomi Rao, who was appointed by President Trump to the bench last year, authored the majority opinion and was joined by Judge Karen Henderson, an appointee of President George H.W. Bush. Judge Robert Wilkins, appointed by President Obama, dissented from the ruling.

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Cory Wilson as a new judge on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in New Orleans. The vote split along party lines, 52-48, with Maine Republican Susan Collins the only Republican voting no. Wilson is the 200th federal judge appointed to a lifetime term by President Trump, and his record of circuit court confirmations, even as of May 4, stands as the most ever confirmed by that time in a president’s first term, going as far back as President John F. Kennedy.

Wilson, 49, is a Yale Law School graduate and former Mississippi state legislator who has recently served as a state appellate judge. The American Bar Association rated him as “well qualified” for the federal appeals court.

Democrats opposed to Wilson pointed to statements he made as a state legislator in favor of voter ID laws, which they claim discriminate against minorities. Senator Kamala Harris, D-Calif., called Wilson’s record, “extremely problematic at this moment in time,” referring to the recent protests nationwide over the death of George Floyd.