WASHINGTON ― Democratic presidential candidates in the Senate have been voting in lockstep against President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees all year.

But Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.) quietly broke from the pack on Thursday to vote to confirm Rodolfo Ruiz to a lifetime seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. And Harris joined Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) in voting to confirm Raul Arias-Marxuach to a lifetime seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.

Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) also voted to advance both of those nominees on a procedural step but then didn’tvote on their confirmations.

These votes mark the first time that any of the 2020 hopefuls in the Senate have voted to advance or confirm one of Trump’s judicial picks this year (barring Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, who just announced his presidential bid last week and has supported some of Trump’s nominees). The remaining senators running for president ― Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.) and Bernie Sanders (Vt.) ― can still say they have opposed all 17 of Trump’s court picks in 2019.

Why did some of these senators just break from their records?

Harris, Klobuchar and Booker didn’t help to confirm particularly terrible judges; neither Ruiz nor Arias-Marxuach were opposed by civil rights groups who have been urging Democrats to oppose lotsofTrump’sothercourtpicks. But for the 2020 crew, it’s been more about the principle of not helping Trump confirm any judges given their staunch opposition to his policies, the extreme ideological bent of his court picks to date and their protests of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) blowing up Senate rules to confirm the president’s lifetime nominees more easily.

Harris and Gillibrand both vowed in February to oppose all of Trump’s appellate court nominees, though they didn’t say anything about his district court nominees.