The U.S. Senate voted almost unanimously late Wednesday to confirm Rachel Kovner as a district judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York—but Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York, cast one of the three votes opposing Kovner’s confirmation.

Kovner, who has worked in the Office of the Solicitor General in Washington, D.C., and in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, was nominated by President Donald Trump in May 2018.

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