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Senate Confirms Federal Judge 17 Years After Nomination

By JM Rieger and Niels Lesniewski

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Roughly 17 years after first being nominated, Ronnie L. White is finally on his way to becoming a federal judge in Missouri. The Senate confirmed White, 53-44, to a seat in the Eastern District of Missouri after limiting debate earlier in the day with 54 affirmative votes, short of the 60 that used to be required for cloture before Democrats used the “nuclear option” in 2013 to effectively change the rules. White’s nomination during the Clinton administration eventually fell on a party-line vote in 1999, 45-54. Republicans had the majority in the Senate at that time. Ahead of Wednesday’s action, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., called the original vote “a grievous error.”

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