Two former Florida Supreme Court justices appointed to a federal appeals court by President Donald Trump are facing increased pressure to step aside from a voting-rights case that could decide whether hundreds of thousands of convicted felons can cast ballots in Florida this fall.

Democratic members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee this week accused Judges Barbara Lagoa and Robert Luck of judicial misconduct and reneging on pledges they made before their Senate confirmations to the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit last year.