Danielle Hunsaker testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing to be U.S. circuit judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. Photo by Diego RadzinschiOregon Judge Gets Senate Confirmation for 9th Circuit Seat
Danielle Hunsaker, who clerked for Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain, the judge whose seat she will fill on the Ninth Circuit, was confirmed in a 73-17 vote by the U.S. Senate Wednesday.
November 06, 2019 at 05:37 PM
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The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Danielle Hunsaker to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday, in a 73-17 vote.
The confirmation of Hunsaker, who most recently served as the presiding judge on the Washington County Circuit Court of Oregon, is set to make her the eighth of President Donald Trump's nominees to take the bench on the nation's largest circuit court.
Early in her legal career, Hunsaker clerked for Ninth Circuit Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain, the judge whose seat she was tapped to fill in August. The seat has been vacant since O'Scannlain took senior status at the end of 2016.
Federal prosecutor Ryan Bounds, another O'Scannlain clerk, had been earlier nominated to fill the Oregon seat, but his nomination was withdrawn from the Senate floor just before a scheduled vote amid concerns that he didn't have enough votes for confirmation and objections from Oregon's Democratic senators over some of his college writings. Hunsaker, who had the backing of her two home-state senators, took largely friendly questions from Senate Judiciary Committee members at her confirmation hearing in September.
Trump's nominations of Southern California federal prosecutor Patrick Bumatay and former Nevada Solicitor General Lawrence VanDyke are currently pending in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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