U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated Los Angeles attorney Eric Tung and Maine litigator Joshua Dunlap to fill vacancies on two federal appellate courts, raising to 14 the number of judicial candidates he has unveiled during his second term. Tung, a partner at Jones Day and former federal prosecutor, previously clerked for Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Neil Gorsuch. He has been put forward for the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit, which hears appeals from California, Oregon and Washington. Dunlap, a lawyer at Pierce Atwood in Portland, was selected for the Boston-based First Circuit. The court’s lone vacancy had left it the only U.S. appeals bench without an active Republican-appointed judge after President Joe Biden’s nominee, Julia Lipez, failed to win Senate confirmation. Trump has now named four appellate nominees in his current term, building on the 234 lifetime federal judges he installed during his first four years in office. Both appointments require Senate approval, where Republicans hold a narrow majority.