Judge Andrew Brasher. Photo: Diego M. RadzinschiAlabama's Andrew Brasher Wins Confirmation to Eleventh Circuit
Judge Andrew Brasher is filling the seat vacated by Chief Circuit Judge Edward Carnes, who is taking senior status.
February 11, 2020 at 05:29 PM
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President Donald Trump's sixth nominee to the 12-member U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate after serving on the district court bench for nine months.
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Judge Andrew Brasher, who served in the Middle District of Alabama, on a 52-43 vote. Brasher was confirmed to the bench on a 52-47-party line vote last May and was nominated to the Atlanta-based appeals court six months later.
Brasher, 38, a former Alabama solicitor general, fills the spot opened when Chief Circuit Judge Edward Carnes announced he would take senior status.
Brasher's nomination was vehemently opposed by civil rights organizations citing his work in cases opposing same sex marriage, limiting legal abortions, restricting voting rights and defending racial gerrymandering.
On Monday, Andrew Gillum, a Tallahassee Democrat who lost the 2018 gubernatorial race to Ron DeSantis, announced his opposition to Brasher. Gillum said he feared Brasher's influence in an appeal pending before the Eleventh Circuit challenging restrictions the Florida Legislature imposed on a 2018 constitutional amendment restoring the voting rights of felons once their sentences are complete.
Brasher has been championed by Alabama's senior senator, Richard Shelby, a Republican who called him "an outstanding choice" when Trump nominated him to the district court last year.
The state's junior senator, Democrat Doug Jones, did not support Brasher's nomination.
Brasher earned his law degree from Harvard University. He clerked for Eleventh Circuit Judge William Pryor before joining Birmingham, Alabama, firm Bradley Arant Boult Cummings where he worked as an associate with partner Kevin Newsom, a Trump appointee confirmed to the Eleventh Circuit in 2017
Brasher continued to follow in Newsom's footsteps, joining the Alabama attorney general's office as deputy solicitor general in 2011. Brasher became solicitor general in 2014. Newsom served as solicitor general from 2003 to 2007.
The Eleventh Circuit flipped to a majority of judges nominated by Republican presidents in November when Florida Supreme Court Justice Barbara Lagoa was confirmed. That was a day after fellow Justice Robert Luck won confirmation. Both judges have Miami roots.
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