NEWS & COMMENTARY Trump gets another conservative judge confirmed...this one for North Carolina on the 4th COA



The Senate has voted to confirm Allison Rushing to a seat on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, (which serves North Carolina, among other states. The action is interesting on many levels, not the least of which is how the Senate is perform this important role at this time. Rushing is an avowed conservative and it is interesting how someone such as she could be confirmation.



Eli Rosenberg, writing at www.outline.com reports on the action:

Allison Rushing, partner at Williams and Connolly who President Trump nominated in August, was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit by a vote that split evenly down party lines. All 53 Republicans voted for her, while the rest of the Senate, with the exception of three abstentions — Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico), Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Arizona) — voted against her.



The court covers federal jurisdictions in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, South Carolina and Maryland.



The news drew quick condemnation from Democrats and many civil rights and LGBTQ groups.



"Today is a very difficult and disappointing day for the roughly 1 million LGBTQ people who live in the states covered by the Fourth Circuit, and for all people who care about courts that can treat all people with dignity and fairness," Sharon McGowan, the legal director of Lambda Legal, said in a statement.



Republicans just advanced the judicial nomination of 36 year-old Allison Jones Rushing for the 4th Circuit (NC). She has practiced law for just 9 years, only tried 4 cases to verdict or judgment in her career (none as lead counsel), and isn't even a member of the NC bar.



— Senator Dick Durbin (@SenatorDurbin) March 4, 2019



Republicans cheered her confirmation.



"I want to thank my Senate colleagues for voting to confirm Allison Jones Rushing to be a U.S. Circuit Court Judge for the Fourth Circuit," Sen. Thom Tillis, of North Carolina, said in a statement. "I've had the opportunity to get to know her through the nomination process and I know she's going to do a great job."



Rushing's nomination drew vocal opposition from a coalition of more than 200 civil rights organizations, including the NAACP, the Human Rights Campaign, the ACLU lead by Vanita Gupta, the former head of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice under President Obama.



"In their quest to remake the federal courts, Republicans rushed to confirm an inexperienced ideologue to a lifetime appointment in North Carolina despite her never having practiced there," the coalition, The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights, said in a statement. "Rushing has denounced marriage equality, opposed remedies for discriminatory lending practices, and rejected efforts to end housing discrimination against domestic and sexual violence survivors. Her record clearly shows she will not be a fair and independent judge — a reality with dire consequences for Fourth Circuit cases and the American people." [There's more ] Click here to go to the original source to read the rest of the article. The Senate has voted to confirm Allison Rushing to a seat on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, (which serves North Carolina, among other states. The action is interesting on many levels, not the least of which is how the Senate is perform this important role at this time. Rushing is an avowed conservative and it is interesting how someone such as she could be confirmation.Eli Rosenberg, writing atreports on the action:

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