Trump appointment
RE: Trump appointment
One of Trump’s personal flaws — from hiring Michael Cohen to be his lawyer, to choosing Chris Wray as FBI director, he’s made a lot of selection mistakes.
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Timothy James Kelly (born 1969)[1] is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and former chief counsel for national security and senior crime counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
BIOGRAPHY
Kelly received his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Duke University, and his Juris Doctor from Georgetown Law, where he was a senior associate editor of the American Criminal Law Review. Kelly spent a decade as a federal prosecutor, serving first as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia and then as a trial attorney in the Public Integrity Section of the Department of Justice's Criminal Division. Kelly also spent several years as a civil litigator at Arnold & Porter. He clerked for Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He also served as the Republican staff director for the Senate's Caucus on International Narcotics Control,[2] and from 2013 to 2017 Judge Kelly served as Chief Counsel for National Security and Senior Crime Counsel to U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley.[3]
Tim Kelly | |
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Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia | |
Assumed office September 8, 2017 | |
Appointed by | Donald Trump |
Preceded by | Rosemary M. Collyer |
Personal details | |
Born | 1969 (age 53–54) Glen Cove, New York, U.S. |
Education | Duke University (AB) Georgetown University (JD) |
ESPECIALLY on the DC District People's Court.
One of the "tells" is the vote count.
In Kelly's case, it was 94 to 2 for confirmation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Donald_Trump