D.C. Circuit Nominee Robert Wilkins Clears Committee

In this June 3, 2013 file photo, Robert Wilkins, President Barack Obama's nominee to the District of Columbia Circuit Court, listens in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Just a week after the Senate h... In this June 3, 2013 file photo, Robert Wilkins, President Barack Obama's nominee to the District of Columbia Circuit Court, listens in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Just a week after the Senate hashed out a compromise for approving seven of President Barack Obama's nominees to run government departments, agencies and boards, Republicans on Wednesday signaled their opposition to Obama's plan for filling vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) MORE LESS
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The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nomination of Robert Wilkins to the D.C. Circuit on a party-line vote of 10-8 on Thursday.

He’s the third nominee of President Barack Obama to clear committee by the same partisan vote. Republicans have threatened to filibuster all of them.

A cloture vote to advance the first of the three nominees, Patricia Millett, is scheduled for Thursday.

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