Peter Phipps testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing to be judge for the Third Circuit on June 5, 2019. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALMSenate Panel to Consider Phipps' Nomination to Third Circuit Next Week
A 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 20, 2019 at 12:15 PM
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to consider next week 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.
A hearing held June 5 on Phipps' nomination 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. Democrats said the Knights of Columbus is active in the movement to overturn abortion rights, but Republicans said they were questioning Phipps' religious faith.
On Thursday, the panel advanced Trump's nominees for district court judgeships in New York, Texas, Maryland, Illinois, West Virginia, Michigan and Rhode Island. Members also approved Daniel Aaron Bress for the Ninth Circuit.
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