Park, Bianco, Trump's Choices for Second Circuit, Headed for Senate Floor Vote
U.S. District Judge Joseph Frank Bianco of the Eastern District of New York and Consovoy McCarthy Park name attorney Michael Park were voted out of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee along a party-line vote Thursday.
March 07, 2019 at 04:18 PM
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Two of President Donald Trump's nominees for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit were voted out of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee along party lines on Thursday, bringing each one step closer to joining the federal appellate bench.
U.S. District Judge Joseph Frank Bianco of the Eastern District of New York and Consovoy McCarthy Park name attorney Michael Park were sent to the full Senate for consideration on 12-10 votes. While receiving unanimous Republican backing in the committee, Democrats fumed over both picks advancing despite the lack of support from New York's U.S. senators.
“In the past century, before President Trump took office, only five judges in history have been confirmed with only one 'blue slip,' and the last one was in 1989,” said U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, the committee's ranking Democrat, during the meeting in Washington, D.C. The Law Journal monitored the hearing via livestream on the committee's website. She made reference to the process where senators provide their opinion on a federal court nominee. In the past, unfavorable or withheld blue slips from a senator could scuttle an administration's selection.
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