Senate Judiciary Committee approves Lohier nomination for Sotomayor's old seat on 2nd Circuit

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Raymond Joseph Lohier, Jr., Assistant US Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Chief of the Southern District of New York's Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force
Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (Sotomayor's old seat)
44 Years Old


After the lengthy debate over Mr. Liu, the committee unanimously approved the nomination of Raymond Lohier Jr., a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, to be a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York. That seat was formerly held by Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the Supreme Court.

Mr. Lohier, who is backed by Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, leads the Southern District’s securities and commodities fraud task force. A graduate of Harvard College and New York University law school, he is Haitian-American.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/liu-nomination-advances/


Previous posts

Obama Nominates Raymond Lohier to the 2nd Circuit and Judge Kate O'Malley to the Federal Circuit (Thu Mar-11-10)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7891679

Senate Judiciary to hold nomination hearing for Lohier, Sotomayor's old seat on the 2nd Circuit (Tue Apr-20-10)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8185179

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1. Don't know much about him but Schumer must

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2. Wikipedia Bio Link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Lohier

Good thing I don't get to vote because I'd vote 'yes' just because he's such a cutie ;)
And that isn't a good way to decide on a confirmation.