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University of Chicago ( JD) Neomi Jehangir Rao (born March 22, 1973) [1] is an American jurist and legal scholar who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2019, having served in the Trump Administration from 2017 to 2019 ...
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Mar 13, 2019 · White House official Neomi Rao won confirmation to a seat on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on a straight party-line vote, 53-46. No Republican opposed Rao ...
Washington, DC – Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement today on the confirmation hearing of Neomi Rao, nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit: “Neomi Rao is another judicial nominee from the Donald Trump/Federalist Society special interest machine. Her ideology was birthed […]
- College Writings on Sexual Assault. Several senators brought up an article Rao wrote about date rape while she was an undergraduate at Yale. In the article, she suggested that women should take measures to avoid becoming victims.
- On Recusing Herself in Future Cases. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D. Calif., the committee’s ranking member, asked Rao to commit to recuse herself in any matter that might come before her involving Trump and administrative agencies.
- Religious Views and Religious Tests. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., brought up academic articles Rao wrote discussing the Supreme Court’s decisions in Lawrence v. Texas (striking down a law criminalizing sodomy) and United States v. Windsor (striking down the federal definition of marriage in the Defense of Marriage Act).
- Executive Power and the Special Counsel. No Trump-era confirmation hearing would be complete without someone bringing up special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election.
Mar 13, 2019 · The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm Neomi Rao, a judicial nominee who faced intense opposition over her writings in college, to take now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s vacant seat on ...
Mar 13, 2019 · Neomi Rao, President Donald Trump’s nominee to for the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, at a Senate Judiciary confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on February 5, 2019.
