Trump Pick Wins Confirmation to Eleventh Circuit
U.S. District Judge Andrew Brasher, 38, of the Middle District of Alabama will fill the seat currently held by Chief Circuit Judge Edward Carnes, who has announced he will take senior status at a yet undetermined date.
February 11, 2020 at 05:29 PM
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Judge Andrew Brasher. (Photo: Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM)
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Alabama judge Andrew Brasher as President Donald Trump's latest appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
The 52-43 vote comes after the 38-year-old judge spent less than a year on the bench as a federal trial judge in the Middle District of Alabama. Brasher was confirmed to that seat in a 52-47-party line vote last May. Trump nominated him to the appeals court six months later.
Brasher is the sixth Trump appointee on the 12-member court.
Brasher will fill the spot of Chief Judge Edward Carnes, who has announced he will 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 Democrat who lost Florida's 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.
But the state's junior senator, Doug Jones, a Democrat, did not support Brasher's nomination.
Brasher earned his law degree from Harvard University. He clerked for Eleventh Circuit Judge William Pryor then joined Birmingham firm Bradley Arant Boult Cummings where, as an associate, he worked with law firm partner Kevin Newsom, a Trump appointee confirmed to the Eleventh Circuit in 2017
Brasher continued to follow in Newsom's footsteps, joining the Office of the Alabama attorney general as deputy solicitor general in 2011. Brasher became solicitor general in 2014. Newsom served as solicitor general from 2003-2007.
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