WASHINGTON -- Senate leaders
are clashing over a Louisville attorney and former blogger picked by
President Trump for an appellate court post, with Republicans charging
obstructionism and Dems calling the nominee anti-LGBT and anti-woman.
Trump
nominated John K. Bush, a partner and co-chairman of the litigation
department at the Louisville office of Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP, on
May 8 to serve as a judge on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Bush's
nomination was pushed through the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday
by an 11-9 party-line vote. He survived a procedural vote in the full
Senate today 51-48, another party-line vote with Sen. John McCain
(R-Ariz.) absent.
The
attorney penned more than 400 posts on the "Elephants in the Bluegrass"
blog run by his wife, including op-eds criticizing the State
Department's wording change to allow same-sex couples to be listed as
parents on passport applications, calling the Dred Scott decision
upholding slavery and the Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion "the
two greatest tragedies in our country," and referring to House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as "Mama Pelosi."
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