The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced the selection of a former Fox News host for a federal prosecutor post along with half a dozen other U.S. attorney nominees and three bills on opioid tracking,

President Donald Trump has nominated loyal associates to influential positions over and over. But one recent pick for the federal bench has legal experts and many lawmakers particularly up in arms. The Senate voted Tuesday to begin considering former Trump defense attorney Emil Bove for a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals judge for the Third Circuit of the U.

Emil Bove’s appointment to serve as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit cleared a key procedural hurdle Thursday afternoon following Democrats’ efforts to derail his nomination.