Third Circuit Nominee's Committee Vote Set For Thursday
A previous hearing on Phipps' nomination had sparked a heated exchange among Judiciary Committee members over the propriety of questioning the nominee about his membership in the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization.
June 21, 2019 at 09:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on The Legal Intelligencer
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to consider President Donald Trump's nomination of Peter Phipps to serve as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
The panel is scheduled to meet for a vote June 27.
Phipps is currently a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Before that, he was senior trial counsel in the federal programs branch at the Justice Department's Civil Division, and spent three years as an associate at Jones Day, where he focused on civil litigation. He got his law degree from Stanford Law School.
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