Late last December, Carl Nichols, a top regulatory and government litigation partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in Washington, took a call from the White House.

A Trump lawyer wanted to know whether Nichols was interested in a vacancy on Washington’s federal trial court. The next day, Nichols recounted, he said yes. Trump would nominate the former top U.S. Justice Department lawyer in June.

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