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In a party line vote, the US Senate voted Thursday to confirm President Trump’s most controversial judicial candidate to date.

This is John Bush, a lawyer and political blogger from Kentucky whose articles denigrated gay rights and compared the Supreme Court decision on abortion in Roe deer v. Wade to his pro-slavers 1857 Dred Scott decision.

And he’s now a U.S. Court of Appeals Judge for the 6th Circuit.

Blogging under a false name, Bush has published more than 400 articles, often citing right-wing media reports containing conspiracy theories and false information, such as the claim that former President Barack Obama was not born in the USA.

During his confirmation hearing last week, Bush called his blog “political activity” and promised that he would not put his politics on the bench.

When Bush said he would follow Supreme Court rulings upholding a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy, Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Reminded Bush he was under oath. And Senator John Kennedy, R-La., Added caustically that after reviewing Bush’s blogs, he was “not impressed.”

Shortly after the hearing, a clearly disgusted Kennedy said he was unsure how he would vote on the nomination, but on Thursday he joined other Republican members of the Senate to vote to confirm the candidate.

Few observers believed that Kennedy would ultimately vote against Bush’s confirmation given that Bush is from Kentucky and his nomination was made not only by Trump but behind the scenes by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. . Crossing your own party leader is not something senators like to do, and Kennedy did not.

The final vote was 51-47, with Senator John McCain the Republican absent.

Bush is Trump’s fourth judicial candidate to obtain confirmation. Twenty-two applications are pending. Including these 22, there are 135 federal judicial positions to be filled. It is much more than usual. When President George W. Bush left office, there were 54 vacancies. But in the last few years of the Obama administration, when Republicans controlled the Senate, they blocked dozens of Obama’s presidential candidates, which explains the large number of vacancies now.

Trump has actively sought to appoint judges who are not only conservative but also young and capable of long-sitting, erasing and quickly surpassing the gains Obama has made in his judicial appointments over two terms.

Regina Doherty

Source: Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie

FINE GAEL Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty confirmed this evening that a complaint has been filed with Gardaí about a political scholar and blogger who recently wrote an article on Doherty’s financial history.

Writing on Jude Collins’ blog, Tyrone-born scholar Catherine Kelly said she was recently approached by gardaí from Pearse Street Garda station who, after confirming her identity and username on Twitter, warned her against her social media posts and online articles referring to Regina Doherty.

An article that allegedly caused the complaint was published online earlier this year and dealt with the liquidation of a business run by Doherty and her husband in 2013.

Contacted about this this evening, a spokesperson for Doherty confirmed that a complaint had been filed with gardaí.

“A complaint has been lodged with Garda, but it would be inappropriate to comment as Garda investigations (are ongoing) and a Garda investigation is ongoing,” the spokesperson said. TheJournal.fr.

Anyone has the right to lodge a complaint with the gardaí if they believe they are being subjected to illegal activity.

A Garda spokesperson said TheJournal.fr that “An Garda Síochána does not comment on outstanding cases involving appointees,” when asked specifically if a complaint had been filed against Kelly by Minister Doherty.

The liquidation of his company, which bought and sold surplus computer components, in January 2013 saw the company close its doors with an outstanding amount of € 280,000.

The company went out of business at the height of the recession in 2009.

In May 2016, Doherty described the circumstances surrounding the liquidation in an interview with RTÉ, and reiterated that she had not “broken the law”.

She said that she and her husband took out a loan to pay off AIB which “will probably take me the rest of my life to pay off and that’s cool because I’m lucky to be able to do it and to pay it back. ‘other debts were written off during the liquidation’.

“I didn’t hide anything, I’m neither happy nor proud of what happened,” she said.

I’m not a bad person, I’ve had tough times in business and learned more than anything else.

Doherty, 46, was first elected to Dáil Éireann in 2011 and became Chief Government Whip following her re-election in the February 2016 general election.

She succeeded Leo Varadkar as Minister of Social Protection when the first rose to Taoiseach last month.

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