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.

One of the Senate Majority Leader John Thune's biggest fights is happening right now, but it is barely getting any attention.

U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) ridiculed President Trump’s verbal attacks against the Federalist Society and conservative legal activist Leonard Leo, a legal powerbroker who assisted Clarence Thomas in his Supreme Court confirmation hearings and led campaigns to support the nominations of John Roberts,