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Monday, July 7, 2025

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Monday, July 7, 2025

17 years later, Judge Ronnie White confirmed to the federal bench

Judge Ronnie White
Judge Ronnie White

The U.S. Senate confirmed former Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ronnie White’s appointment to the federal bench on Wednesday afternoon. The Senate was split nearly along party lines, 53-44, in favor of his nomination, the Washington Post reported.

Judge White was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1997, but his nomination was blocked by a Republican controlled Senate. President Barack Obama resubmitted his name last year. 

“It’s not often that the Senate has a chance to go back and fix a grievous error,” Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo said Wednesday in a speech on the Senate floor. “And that grievous error occurred when a good and qualified man was defeated in the U.S. Senate. There was an attack on Ronnie White for being ‘soft on crime,’ [but his record] flies in the face of that assertion.”

Read the full story at The St. Louis American