Lea is set to be confirmed by the Senate today
WASHINGTON— Yesterday, United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) spoke on the Senate floor imploring his Senate colleagues to confirm Brian Lea, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee.
Remarks as prepared for delivery:
I would also like to address a separate issue, President Trump’s nomination of Brian Charles Lea to be District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee.
Brian is a fourth-generation Memphian, and graduate of Union University.
His academic credentials are outstanding, with a 4.06 GPA in law school, followed by clerkships for Judge Ed Carnes and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Brian has experience teaching law alongside Justice Thomas, and also as a partner at Jones Day, one of the nation’s finest law firms.
He has even defended our legislative privileges as lead counsel in a case on behalf of our colleague, Senator Graham.
Brian currently serves as Deputy Associate Attorney General, serving the people of the United States of America as counsel in some of its most complicated civil litigation.
Brian has the patience, courtesy, humility, and thoughtfulness of a good trial judge.
He recognizes that the Constitution should be interpreted according to its original meaning, and it must be followed—regardless of the ebbs and flows of public opinion, or the personal preferences of the one who dons the robe.
I am confident Brian will serve the people of Memphis well, and will uphold the highest standards of our judiciary.
I urge my colleagues to support his confirmation.
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