Posted on 07/10/2018 12:55:14 PM PDT by Jaysin
The United States Senate has confirmed former Hawaii Attorney General Mark J. Bennett to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by a bipartisan vote of 72-27.
Judge Bennett, who will maintain chambers in Honolulu, was nominated to the court by President Donald Trump on Feb. 15. After appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 11, his nomination was reported to the Senate floor on May 10. He fills a judgeship vacant since Dec. 31, 2016, when Judge Richard R. Clifton of Honolulu assumed senior status.
“I am very pleased to see Mark Bennett confirmed with a decisive bipartisan vote in the Senate,” said U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz in a news release. “This is the way the process is supposed to work. I’ve known Mark for many years, going back to when I served in the Hawaii State Legislature and he served as the state attorney general. Even though we were on different sides of the aisle, Mark was never difficult to work with, because he never had a partisan agenda. Instead, he approached every issue by focusing on the substance and how we could make things better for Hawaii. Because Mark made the effort to understand where others were coming from, we were able to find common ground. He will make an outstanding judge.”
Prior to his appointment to the bench, Bennett had been director of Starn, O’Toole, Marcus & Fisher in Honolulu since 2011. Occasionally, he served as special deputy attorney general for Hawaii and as a special deputy corporation counsel for Honolulu.
Judge Bennett has also been a manager, member and owner of Beecher Hill Properties, LLC, in Honolulu since 2013. He served as attorney general of Hawaii from 2003 to 2010 and was an adjunct professor of law at the University of Hawaii, William S. Richardson School of Law in the early 90s and in the 2000s.
Winning IF he proves to be any good.
From Hawaii as AG. Doesn't sound good.
considering it’s the ninth—you can’t get much worse then whats sitting on the bench there now.
How badly is he out numbered by the moon bats on the ninth?
A 72-27 vote makes it rather suspect, doesn’t it? But then again, maybe the moonbat base isn’t paying much attention at the AAA level.
Mark Jeremy Bennett (born February 24, 1953) is a Honolulu, Hawaii attorney who served as Attorney General of Hawaii from 2003 to 2010 in the two-term administration of Republican Governor Linda Lingle. He is the first attorney general appointed by a Republican governor since the governorship of William F. Quinn, the first elected governor of the state.
“Winning IF he proves to be any good.”
Let’s see if he has the balls to look into the Fraud’s fraud.
Is there anyone from Hawaii who is at all qualified to serve on any court?
If Linda Liberal appointed him, he can’t be terribly conservative
He sounds like an activist to me.
Judges are not supposed to make things better they are supposed to enforce the law.
They are not supposed “understand where others were coming from” they are supposed to look at the facts and judge who is right and who is wrong.
Trump submitted him. whats the problem?
Did he (Trump) suddenly fall from your favor as the President?
Who the heck are you to question his candidates?
Sheesh
Yeah, generally speaking the father you get from 50 Senate votes, the worse the appointment. This guy got 72, which is worrisome. Rod Rosenstein got high 90’s, which is why he’s terrible.
The only exception is to the rule is Rosenstein’s boss, Mr. Magoo, who would’ve probably cleared 80 votes if Democrats knew he would roll over so quickly for the Mueller witch hunt.
Listing of the votes.....
Cruz against, Cornholio for. ‘Nuf said.
Oh, and for confirmation, all of the usual D suspects voted for.
God, but I despise Cornholio!
All the Ds voted for, not a one vote no.
Hmmm, Hawaii. Doesn’t sound good but guess he might be the exception from that demonrat stronghold.
No, its not
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