President Donald Trump Thursday announced his intent to nominate two South Florida judges—Justices Barbara Lagoa and Robert J. Luck—to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

The decision comes after speculation the court would lean right politically, as the president weighed lifetime appointments to replace two outgoing Floridian jurists, Stanley Marcus and Gerald Bard Tjoflat, who took senior status.

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