President Joe Biden’s nominee to be only the second Black man appointed to a federal appeals court in the past decade glided through his Senate confirmation hearing.
Embry Kidd, a US magistrate judge in Orlando, Florida, vying for a seat on the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, easily handled the kinds of inquiries from Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans that have tripped up other nominees or created partisan controversy.
The former federal prosecutor navigated pop quiz questions on constitutional law from Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), and avoided other GOP-fueled moments that have gone viral on social media and ...
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