Hunsaker advances

Law360 reports: Picks For 9th, 2nd Circs. Advance With Bipartisan Panel Vote

Four judicial nominees sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee on a bipartisan basis Thursday, teeing up confirmations to the Ninth Circuit, the Second Circuit and district courts in Florida and Pennsylvania.
The committee sent to the Senate floor Oregon Judge Danielle J. Hunsaker for the Ninth Circuit with a 16-6 vote, ....

The DJ has President Trump’s proposed eighth 9th Circuit judge set for confirmation vote: Oregon state Judge Danielle Hunsaker moved a step closer Thursday to becoming President Donald J. Trump's eighth successful appointment to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a bipartisan Senate Judiciary Committee vote advanced her nomination to the full chamber for final approval.

• Four Democratic senators -- Dianne Feinstein, Patrick Leahy, Sheldon Whitehouse and Chris Coons -- joined the committee's 12 Republicans to recommend Hunsaker's nomination by a comfortable 16-6 tally. All but two of Trump's prior circuit nominees advanced on party-line votes.
• Two additional Trump nominees -- federal prosecutor Patrick J. Bumatay in San Diego and former Nevada solicitor general Lawrence VanDyke -- await committee hearings. Both would replace George W. Bush appointees, Carlos T. Bea and Jay S. Bybee, who are soon to take senior status.
• The timing of Hunsaker's final Senate confirmation vote has yet to be announced.