Vice President Mike Pence broke a tie vote today in the Senate to confirm Trump nominee Jonathan Kobes to the federal bench despite a “not qualified” rating from the American Bar Association.
Kobes, now heading to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit following his 51-50 confirmation, becomes the 30th Trump circuit court nominee to clear the Republican-led chamber.
Six of Donald Trump’s federal judicial nominees have received unqualified ratings and four have been confirmed.
Conservatives contest the unqualified mark as partisan-fueled bias, but it’s a rallying cry for Democrats in their uphill fight to slow the ...
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