The U.S. Capitol Building, on Jan. 16, 2021, in Washington, D.C. - Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/TNS
The Senate on Thursday voted to confirm Kansan Richard Federico to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, filling a seat that has been vacant for nearly two years. Federico, who has served as a federal public defender in Kansas since 2017, was nominated by President Joe Biden in July. He also worked as a military judge in the Navy Reserve Trial Judiciary and served in the Navy’s JAG corps both as a prosecutor and as a defense attorney. “I appreciated the opportunity to meet with him in Kansas and Washington, D.C., to discuss his commitment to practice judicial restraint by rel...
