[5] On November 1, 2017, a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

[7] On January 3, 2018, his nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate.

[8] On January 5, 2018, President Trump announced his intent to renominate Moorer to a federal judgeship.

[13] Moorer was one of three judges that ruled Alabama's proposed redistricting maps unconstitutional under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

The three judge panel's ruling was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Allen v.