WASHINGTON, June 8 (UPI) -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown, who had been one of President Bush's judicial nominations held up by Democrats, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate Thursday.
Senators voted 56-43 elevating Brown from the California State Supreme Court to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The D.C. appeals bench is considered the second-most important court in the country.
Democrats claimed that Brown's view were too far to the political right and had held up a vote on her nomination for two years.
The Brown vote was part of a compromise reached by seven Republican and seven Democrats in the Senate. They agreed not to filibuster some nominees if the Republican leadership wouldn't make procedural moves to do away with the filibuster option on all judicial nominations.
On Thursday the Senate is expected to vote on whether to approve the nomination of former Alabama Attorney General William Pryor to the federal bench. He was the third judge -- along with Brown and Priscilla Owen, who won approval to the federal appeal court last week -- in the Senate agreement.
