by Brooke Sopelsa
The Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm Kyle Duncan to serve on the 5th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, which covers Louisiana,
Mississippi and Texas. While several Republicans and conservatives
applauded Duncan, a lawyer nominated by Presidential Donald Trump, a
number of Democrats and liberal advocacy groups slammed him as “unfit”
and “extreme."
Democrats questioned whether Duncan could be an impartial arbitrator
given the cases he had worked on, which include defending a North
Carolina voter ID law, fighting a contraceptive mandate in the
Affordable Care Act and defending Louisiana’s ban on same-sex marriage.
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Source: NBC News
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