When Donald Trump told conservatives last year that they had to vote for him to get the kind of federal judges they wanted, I doubted him. I wrote in Bloomberg View that Trump could not be trusted to fight the Democrats for a cause in which he had never before shown the slightest interest.

As president, though, Trump has delivered. He nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, to ecstatic reviews from the right, and the Senate confirmed him.

With less fanfare, Trump has also nominated a slew of conservative intellectual heavyweights to the appeals courts. Charlie Savage reports in the New York Times that “Trump has already appointed eight appellate judges, the most this early in a presidency since Richard M. Nixon.” Getting solid judges confirmed to the appeals courts remains one of his top selling points for conservatives, as it was in 2016.

More than a fifth of voters told exit pollsters a year ago that nominations to the Supreme Court were “the most important factor” in their decision, and they went 56 percent to 41 percent for Trump over Hillary Clinton.