Boxer, Hatch, Bush agree on Ninth Circuit nomination.PRESIDENT Bush has nominated Milan D. Smith Jr., a Torrance-based transactions attorney, for a seat on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The 53-year-old Smith has spent the bulk of his career in the private practice he founded, Smith Crane Robinson & Parker. Relations between Democrats and Republicans in Congress are frosty right now, but the moderate Smith is expected to easily win confirmation. An odd Congressional couple suggested his appointment: U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer Barbara Levy Boxer (born November 11, 1940) is an American politician and the current junior U.S. Senator from the State of California. A member of the Democratic Party, Boxer was first elected to the U.S. , D-Calif., a well-known liberal, and Sen. Orrin Hatch Orrin Grant Hatch (born March 22, 1934) is a Republican United States Senator from Utah, serving since 1977. Hatch is a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, where he serves on the subcommittees on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure and Taxation and IRS , the powerful Republican from Utah. Boxer became a friend of Smith through his brother, U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith
Gordon Harold Smith (born May 25, 1952) is Oregon's junior United States Senator, currently serving his second term. He is a member of the Republican Party. , R-Ore. Hatch, like the Smiths, is a Mormon, and he has known the Torrance attorney's family for four decades. In fact, Smith comes from a political family. His grandfather was chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court The Arizona Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Arizona. It consists of a Chief Justice, a Vice Chief Justice, and three Associate Justices. Each Justice is appointed by the Governor of Arizona from a list recommended by a bipartisan commission. ; his cousin Rex Lee, was solicitor general An officer of the U.S. Justice Department who represents the federal government in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. The solicitor general is charged with representing the Executive Branch of the U.S. government in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. during the Reagan Administration, and his father, also Milan Smith, was assistant secretary of agriculture under President Eisenhower. Smith, married with seven children, is best known for a public altercation with Donald Trump. The Donald owns the Ocean Trails Golf Course in Rancho Palos Verdes Rancho Pal·os Ver·des A city of southern California on a channel of the Pacific Ocean west of Long Beach. Population: 42,100. , but the course sits on land owned by the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District (PVPUSD) is a school district based in Palos Verdes, California. It is headed by a superintendent -- presently Walker Williams -- and governed by a five-person, publicly elected school board. , one of Smith's clients. When the school board decided to raise his rent in 2003, Trump sued. Smith took Trump to task on a local TV broadcast that received national play. Smith is Bush's eighth nomination to the Ninth Circuit court. Four nominees have been confirmed. The seat for which Smith is nominated has been vacant since June 2004. The court hears appeals of cases decided by federal trial courts or state courts in Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. Staff reporter Emily Bryson York can be reached at (323) 549-5225, ext. 235, or at eyork@labusinessjournal.com. |
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