Posted on 09/28/2017 11:26:31 AM PDT by abb
Conservative Christian legal warrior Kyle Duncan and Chief U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt were nominated Thursday to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
President Donald Trump will make the announcement this afternoon. The New Orleans-based 5th Circuit hears appeals from Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. Judge throws out part of suit against Louisiana abortion law
A Louisiana native, Duncan practices law in Washington, D.C., specializing in causes involving religious issues and the public sector.
He was hired by then Gov. Bobby Jindal to defend a constitutional challenge to a newly passed state law that required doctors who perform abortions to be affiliated with a hospital. Critics said the provision would significantly hamper legal medical procedures to terminate pregnancies.
Prior to forming a law firm, Duncan was general counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nationally recognized Washington D.C. public interest law firm.
Duncan is best known nationally for representing the Green family, who were evangelical Christians, and their company, Hobby Lobby. The company had challenged the requirement that it be required to provide employees insurance coverage for contraceptive services that they believed would cause abortions based on their religious beliefs.
Duncan was Louisiana's first Solicitor General, representing the state and public officials before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Fifth Circuit, the Louisiana Supreme Court, and federal district courts. He won Connick v. Thompson in the U.S. Supreme Court, reversing a $20 million dollar civil rights judgment.
Engelhardt, 57, joined the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in December 2001 on the nomination of President George W. Bush. He became chief judge of the New Orleans-based court two years ago.
He oversaw compliance with consent decrees in decades-old desegregation cases and was able to shepherd these cases to successful resolutions. Recently, Engelhardt presided over a complex federal racketeering, narcotics, and firearm trial involving a gang known as the Young Melph Mafia that ended in guilty verdicts.
Prior to his judicial service, Engelhardt was a partner at the insurance company defense firm of Hailey, McNamara, Hall, Larmann & Papale in Metairie. He focused on commercial transactions and litigation.
Engelhardt served as a law clerk for Judge Charles Grisbaum, Jr. of the Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal from 1985 to 1987 after graduating from LSU.
He is married to Ann M. Wimberly and lives in Metairie.
Time to split the 9th into 3 parts, then pack it.
I’m getting so tired of winning!
Sounds like white privilege to me. Watch the liberal long-knifes come out now.
Just predicting..........
More winning!
Excellent choices.
Drum roll, please.
Here is my nomination for the worst written sentence of the day:
>>The company had challenged the requirement that it be required to provide employees insurance coverage for contraceptive services that they believed would cause abortions based on their religious beliefs. <<
The confirmation process by the Senate will be interesting to watch.
Go Kyle, Go Kurt.
Split the 9th three ways.
Keep the court centers in the same city, where the 9th is now.
Split the justices also. 1/3rd to each court.
Then appoint 2/3rds of the justices to each court to fill them out.
While the courts would not be centrally located to the new districts, they would not be farther away either.
They would be in the same city they always had to travel to.
This same city issue, is important. It allows for splitting the current justices between the courts. They would not have to sell homes and move.
It eliminates the major arguments against splitting them.
Obviously Jared and Ivanka are still calling the shots /s
All: keep in mind BEFORE these nominations Trump set a record with 15 Circuit Court nominees confirmed or blue-slipped which guarantees confirmation.
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