The U.S. Senate voted to confirm University of Montana law professor Anthony Johnstone to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Monday evening. Johnstone will be the 32nd appeals court judge appointed by President Joe Biden. The nominee was confirmed by a vote of 49-45.
[Actually, isn't this Biden's seventh appointment to the Ninth?]
Ninth Circuit Press Release here.
Note: All 29 authorized judgeships for the Ninth Circuit are now filled!
Bloomberg Law has Biden Pick from Conservative Montana Confirmed to Ninth Circuit
Johnstone, who’s headed for the tribunal’s lone Montana seat, is a former state solicitor, or the state’s top lawyer in court, and most recently a professor at the University of Montana’s Blewett School of Law.
The University of Chicago Law graduate clerked for Bill Clinton’s Ninth Circuit appointee Sidney Thomas, and has been a member of the conservative Federalist Society and the progressive American Constitution Society. Those groups feature in his work as a law professor, for instance, as a panelist or moderator for student forums.
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