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Dorsey fills the seat vacated by Judge Larry Hicks when he took senior status at the end of 2012.
The vote to confirm Dorsey was 54-41 — and sharply divided along political lines.
Dorsey, a civil litigation attorney and native Las Vegan, was heavily championed by Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, who passed her name along to the White House as a potential judicial nominee last June.
But Republicans bristled at a questionable timeline of political contributions made in the weeks just prior to Reid’s recommendation, by founding partners in Dorsey’s firm to Majority PAC, a political action committee run by former Reid aides to promote Democratic candidates championed by Reid.
William Kemp gave Majority PAC $100,000, and J. Randall Jones gave the PAC $50,000 in May 2012, according to donation records first reported in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Dorsey had also made a $2,500 donation to Reid’s personal campaign committee — though the $2,500 was returned prior to Reid recommending her as a federal nominee.
Reid has denied any wrongdoing, reminding that he has no official relationship with Majority PAC.
But Republicans were not satisfied with the explanation.
“We have not received a full explanation of what happened,” Sen. Chuck Grassley, the leading Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Tuesday, just prior to the vote. “I’m concerned about the appearances of these contributions and how such actions might undermine the public confidence that our citizenry must have in the judicial branch.”
Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/jul/09/though-republicans-are-still-uneasy-about-nominee-/#ixzz2YZXDITjh
Nothing like having a judge bought and paid for and having Senile/Coward/Liar Harry Reid in the middle of it.
She maybe the greatest judge ever, but considering the only way she could get on the bench is through bribes, her career will be forever tarnished.
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