Senate confirms judge who interned at anti-LGBTQ group
The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm a 37-year-old Washington lawyer whose nomination drew vociferous opposition from LGBTQ and some civil rights groups, to a lifetime appointment on a federal appeals court.Allison Rushing, partner at Williams and Connolly who President Donald 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 […]
