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.
