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The Republican-controlled United States Senate officially confirmed Wendy Vitter for a seat on the District Court in New Orleans.

Vitter, who can’t fix her mouth to say that desegregation was good law, was nominated before the midterms.

But she couldn’t get confirmed by the narrow Republican majority.

She was renominated this term and a strengthened Republican Senate pushed her through, 52 -45, over the opposition of every Democrat and Susan Collins.

Vitter, who has been general counsel for the Archdiocese of New Orleans since 2012, seemingly believes that abortion causes breast cancer.

At a conference in 2013, Vitter referred to a brochure that linked abortions to breast cancer, and told the audience, “Go to Dr. Angela’s Web site, Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, download it, and, at your next physical, you walk into your pro-life doctor and say, ‘Have you thought about putting these facts or this brochure in your waiting room?’

Each one of you can be the pro-life advocate to take that next step.

That’s what you do with it.”

That same brochure that Vitter appeared to endorse claimed that taking birth control can lead to cervical and liver cancers, and “violent death,” because “women who take oral contraceptives prefer men with similar DNA, and that women in these partnerships have fewer sexual relations, leading to more adultery, and ‘understandably . . . violence.’”

Separately, Vitter appeared at an anti-Planned Parenthood rally, where she accused the group of “kill[ing] over 150,000 females a year.”

Naturally, she left these activities off her disclosure form to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

https://abovethelaw.com/2019/05/senate- ... dy-vitter/

The Senate on Thursday confirmed President Donald Trump's pick for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Wendy Vitter, whose refusal to say whether a landmark civil rights opinion was correctly decided angered Senate Democrats.

Vitter -- who is the general counsel of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans -- was confirmed to the lifetime position by a 52-45 vote.

Last year, during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vitter was asked by Sen. Richard Blumenthal if she thought Brown v. Board of Education -- the landmark opinion from 1954 that struck down school segregation and the "separate but equal" doctrine -- was correctly decided.

Vitter, in that exchange, would not answer the senator's question.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/16/politics ... index.html