In a move that will give President Donald Trump a chance to send yet another Texan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, he’s nominating one its longtime Texas members Ed Prado to become U.S. Ambassador to Argentina.

Prado was appointed to the Fifth Circuit in 2003 by then-President George W. Bush and previously served as a U.S. District Judge in San Antonio, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas and as an assistant public federal defender. He is known among appellate lawyers as one of the more moderate members of a very conservative Fifth Circuit. Prado did not return a call for comment.

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