Members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted 18-2 Thursday to send Birmingham attorney Kevin Newsom’s nomination to an open seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to the full Senate for confirmation.
The vote on Newsom included support of ranking member Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. It was flanked by split votes sending to the Senate floor two far more controversial candidates—Kentuckian John K. Bush for a seat on the federal Sixth Circuit and Damien Schiff for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims—but not before committee Democrats roundly condemned their nominations.
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