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GOP Confirms Anti-Abortion Judge With Help From An Independent Senator
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tariffs-white-house-latest_n_686ec29fe4b09bd98fe4be7e/liveblog_687febe6e4b05e47c5b83536Senate Republicans handed Trump a win on Tuesday with confirmation of one his first judicial nominees, Joshua Divine.
Divine, 35, will now hold a lifetime seat on a U.S. district court in Missouri. He drew strong opposition from Democrats and civil rights groups over his long record of litigation against women’s reproductive rights, including leading a major challenge to the FDA’s decades-long approval of mifepristone, better known as the abortion pill. In 2010, he also argued in favor of bringing back literacy tests for voting, a practice banned in the 1960s for being racially discriminatory.
Divine was expected to be confirmed along party lines, but he picked up an unexpected supporter: Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who joined Republicans in voting for him. It’s not clear why he did, as King caucuses with Democrats and supports abortion rights and voting rights.
He’s already drawing the ire of one progressive group that noticed his vote.
Divine, 35, will now hold a lifetime seat on a U.S. district court in Missouri. He drew strong opposition from Democrats and civil rights groups over his long record of litigation against women’s reproductive rights, including leading a major challenge to the FDA’s decades-long approval of mifepristone, better known as the abortion pill. In 2010, he also argued in favor of bringing back literacy tests for voting, a practice banned in the 1960s for being racially discriminatory.
Divine was expected to be confirmed along party lines, but he picked up an unexpected supporter: Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who joined Republicans in voting for him. It’s not clear why he did, as King caucuses with Democrats and supports abortion rights and voting rights.
He’s already drawing the ire of one progressive group that noticed his vote.
This is so bizarre. Literally the only member of the Democratic caucus to vote to confirm one of Trump's most unhinged nominees, and no explanation why?
— Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) 2025-07-23T02:17:45.026Z
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