The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s second nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit despite Republican concerns about a letter she signed in opposition to Brett Kavanaugh joining the Supreme Court.
Jennifer Sung, an Oregon state labor board member and former union-side labor lawyer, was confirmed Wednesday by a 50-49 margin. Vice President Kamala Harris cast a tie-breaking vote last month to advance Sung’s nomination after the Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked 10-10 with no Republican support.
Republicans had cited a 2018 letter she signed in 2018 opposing Kavanaugh’s nomination, which described him as an “intellectually and ...
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