WASHINGTON– The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Justin Walker, the 38- year-old protege of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to a life time seat on the country’s second-most-powerful court.
Every Republican present but one, Maine Sen. Susan Collins, voted to put Walker onto the District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
There was nothing especially urgent about filling the court seat; it’s not even uninhabited until September. Walker’s election sailed through the Senate at “warp speed,” as one expert put it, due to the fact that McConnell personally wanted him validated.
McConnell has known Walker because he was in high school. He knows Walker’s grandpa, and he advised him to the White Home last year for a seat on a U.S. District Court in Kentucky, at the time calling him “certainly the most exceptional nomination that I’ve ever suggested to presidents to serve on the bench in Kentucky.”
That was a day after the American Bar Association ranked Walker ” not qualified” for the task, mentioning his lack of experience. His resume at the time listed positions as an associate law professor and previous law clerk to then-U.S. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh in the District of Columbia Circuit.
However Republican Politicians validated him anyhow in October. Less than a year later, Walker is getting a promotion, and the ABA states he’s certified this time.
More than 200 nationwide civil rights groups strongly opposed Walker’s nomination over his criticisms of the Affordable Care Act. Walker explained the Supreme Court’s decision to maintain the health care law as “indefensible” and ” devastating,” and he praised Kavanaugh for composing the “plan” for reversing it.
The groups also raised concerns about what they thought about Walker’s severe ideology. When Walker was formally sworn into his District Court seat in March, he