Judge Andrew Brasher in his official photo as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. (almd.uscourts.gov) PROSECUTORS WANT ROGER STONE TO SERVE MORE THAN 7 YEARS IN PRISON
The judge said the fact he might one day face a case with Brown v. Board of Education as a precedent meant he should not publicly take a position on it, a stance several Trump judicial nominees have taken in Senate hearings.
Brasher also doesn’t have what’s called a “blue slip,” from Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala., the traditional name for approval from a judge’s home-state senators. The Senate typically would not move forward with a nomination without blue slips, but McConnell has done away with that precedent, particularly for nominations to the California-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals with Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., staunchly opposing Trump’s picks.
Brasher will be Trump’s sixth appointment to the 11th Circuit, meaning the president will have filled half the court’s bench in his just over three years in office. Trump’s and McConnell’s focus on confirming judges has allowed them to change the balance on the 11th Circuit from a majority of Democrat-appointed judges to a majority of Republican-appointed judges. The same is the case on the 3rd Circuit and the 2nd Circuit.
CONFIRMATION OF LATEST TRUMP JUDICIAL PICK TILTS BALANCE OF 11TH CIRCUIT COURT
McConnell boasted about that accomplishment at a dinner for the Federalist Society, a powerful organization of conservative and libertarian lawyers, late last year.
Brasher’s confirmation vote Tuesday afternoon, which is nearly certain to pass, will immediately be followed by a batch of cloture votes on four district court nominees, setting them up to likely be confirmed later this week.
McConnell’s redoubled effort to shepherd one young conservative judge after another into lifetime appointments is sure to please conservatives like Carrie Severino, the president of the Judicial Crisis Network.
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“As an appellate advocate, Judge Brasher argued three times before the Supreme Court and seventeen times before the Eleventh Circuit,” Severino said in a statement to Fox News. “Yet despite Brasher’s impressive credentials and experience, the left persists in its sad and tiresome smear campaign against President Trump’s outstanding nominees.”
She continued: “I am hopeful the Senate will once again see through the baseless smears, and vote to confirm a great judge.”
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