A Donald Trump district court selection rated unqualified by the American Bar Association was confirmed Oct. 24, while Senate committee action on two other controversial judicial nominees was deferred again.
The chamber voted 50 to 41 along party lines to confirm law professor and former Gibson Dunn & Crutcher associate Justin Walker to a district court seat in Kentucky.
Democrats complain that Walker, 37, was in law school just just over a decade ago and lacks the requisite legal experience for a lifetime trial court appointment.
Republicans say the former clerk to then-appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh and retired Justice ...
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