In a perfunctory Senate Judiciary Committee
hearing Wednesday, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Danielle Hunsaker
described her humble childhood, textualist judicial philosophy, and reverence
for the Supreme Court's signal civil rights decision Brown v. Board of
Education.
- Hunsaker, an Oregon state judge slated for a long-vacant Portland posting left in 2016 by now-Senior Circuit Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain, faced little resistance from the few present committee members. She boasts bipartisan credentials -- a clerkship with the resolutely conservative O'Scannlain; an appointment to her current role by a Democratic governor -- and thanked both President Donald J. Trump and Oregon's Democratic senators in her prepared remarks Wednesday.
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