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Randy Moss, a great player and a great Judge!

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Randolph Moss to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by a 54-45 vote.

The Senators largely split along party lines. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, crossed the aisle to confirm Moss, while Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., voted against him alongside the Republicans.

Moss, a partner in Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr’s Washington office and former clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, will take the seat vacated by Judge Robert Wilkins, who was confirmed to the D.C. Circuit in January.

Though his confirmation was never in danger while the Democrats held the Senate, Moss did face resistance from Republicans, who took issue with statements he made in private practice supporting campaign finance reform and gun control.

During Moss’ confirmation hearings in June, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said, “I’ve observed a tendency in his approach to constitutional interpretation that incorrectly and inappropriately curtails the scope and nature of the rights individual Americans enjoy.”

Moss, who punctuated his years at Wilmer with a stint at U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel from 1996 to 2001, passed through the Judiciary Committee by an 11-7 vote. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, voted with the Democrats to send Moss from the committee to the full Senate, but he sided against Moss’ confirmation on Wednesday.

Immediately after Moss’ confirmation, the Senate approved Leigh Martin May to be a U.S. district judge in the Northern District of Georgia by a 99-0 vote.

Read more: http://www.nationallawjournal.com/legaltimes/id=1202676337921/Wilmers-Randy-Moss-Confirmed-to-DC-Federal-Trial-Bench#ixzz3WAFrAhbi

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