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Senate Confirms Judge Who Republicans Attacked For... Writing A Corny Poem
Source: Huffington Post
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Mustafa Kasubhai to be a federal judge, putting an end to Republicans’ baseless accusations that he is a Marxist because of a cheesy love poem he wrote decades ago as a student.
Kasubhai was confirmed 51 to 44.
President Joe Biden tapped Kasubhai, 54, for a lifetime seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. He has been a magistrate judge on this court since 2018. Before that, he was a county judge from 2007 to 2018.
Like they’ve done with a number of Biden’s court picks, Republicans baselessly tried to cast Kasubhai as a left-wing extremist.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-confirms-judge-republicans-attacked-201718276.html
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