Bloomberg has an update on where things stand. It looks like Judge Boyle might not get his promotion, and that the Haynes nomination might fail too. But the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh was approved today. The 41 year old former Kennedy and Kozinski clerk and Kirkland & Ellis partner(and mostly notoriously Ken Starr's Associate Counsel) was confirmed today to a life-time seat on the powerful US Appeals Court for the District of Columbia. The vote was 57-36. For our most regular readers - Sens. Byrd, Landrieu, Vitter, Santorum, Specter, Bond and Talent all voted to support the nomination (actually every Republican voted for him); Sen. Rockefeller is still recuperating and didn't vote.
Posted by armand at May 26, 2006 01:40 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Law and the Courts