In November 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Travis Randall McDonough to a federal judgeship in the 6th Circuit’s Eastern District of Tennessee.
McDonough, a former chief of staff for Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke, has the support of Tennessee’s Republican senators Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander. McDonough also has already faced the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., and one expert there described the meeting as “a love fest,” in which Corker introduced the nominee and called him humble.
“Travis is one of those people who you just love to see something like that happen to,” Corker said of the nomination.
Our senators also vouched for a nominee to a federal judgeship in the Middle District of Tennessee, Waverly D. Crenshaw.
Up in Pennsylvania, two senators have done the same for Luis Felipe Restrepo, nominated to a judgeship on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Bob Casey, a Democrat, and Pat Toomey, a Republican, have seemingly blessed that nomination, according to a New York Times editorial that this one is piggy-backing on.