The U.S. Senate confirmed Andrew Brasher to the Atlanta-based federal appeals court, increasing the conservative lean on a court central to voting rights cases.
The Republican-led chamber voted 52 to 43 along party lines to approve Brasher to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, over the opposition of Democrats and civil rights groups, including the NAACP. They say his work on cases involving voting and LGBT rights in his role as Alabama’s solicitor general make him unfit for the role. Republicans dismissed that criticism.
In his push to remake the judiciary with conservatives, President Donald Trump ...
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