A Biden appellate court nominee’s gun control representation was scrutinized by Republicans on Wednesday as bipartisan firearms safety legislation moves forward in the Senate.
The brief exchange on guns was the a tense moment in a largely smooth Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Rachel Bloomekatz, who’s nominated to the Cincinnati-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Republican Sens. John Kennedy of Louisiana and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee raised Bloomekatz’s work with Everytown for Gun Safety, which the solo-practitioner said was a co-counsel in some of her cases. One, according to her Senate Judiciary questionnaire, involved representing parents ...
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