Trump Circuit Pick Counters Conservative Critics: The Brief

President Donald Trump’s Seventh Circuit nominee defended herself at today’s confirmation hearing against criticism from some on the right that she isn’t conservative enough to be appointed to the federal bench, Tiana Headley reports.

• “I was raised by a very conservative law professor, and it has stuck,” Rebecca Taibleson, a federal prosecutor in Wisconsin, told the Senate Judiciary Committee in response to questioning from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Taibleson’s father is George Mason University law professor Michael I. Krauss. She also invoked Charlie Kirk in her remarks to say that she was raised in the “best tradition” of the ...