{"id":7995,"date":"2026-03-02T15:47:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/?p=7995"},"modified":"2026-03-02T15:47:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:47:47","slug":"epsteins-lawyer-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/?p=7995","title":{"rendered":"Epstein\u2019s Lawyer Goes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peterson, a registered Republican and the state\u2019s natural resources attorney, was nominated by President Donald Trump. His confirmation fills one of the oldest open seats in the entire U.S. federal court system\u2014a seat left vacant when Judge Tim Burgess retired at the end of 2021.A FAILED DEMOCRAT BLOCKADEWhile 39 Democrats voted \u201cNO\u201d in an attempt to stall the President\u2019s agenda, the blockade ultimately crumbled. In a surprising twist of bipartisanship, six Democrats\u2014including Senator Dick Durbin, the highest-ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee\u2014crossed the aisle to vote \u201cYES.\u201dCarl Tobias, the Williams Chair in Law at the University of Richmond, noted that this wasn\u2019t a strict party-line vote. \u201cI think that means that some of the Democrats are signaling that if a person looks like he\u2019s going to be competent\u2026 they\u2019re going to move forward and vote for that person,\u201d Tobias explained.Peterson also played his cards perfectly during the confirmation process. When pressed by Democrats last year to reveal his personal opinions on whether President Trump lost the 2020 election or the legality of January 6, Peterson wisely refused to answer, noting that he might have to impartially rule on such matters as a judge.BYPASSING THE ESTABLISHMENTAlaska Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan played a pivotal role in getting Peterson on the bench. Sullivan organized a special committee to examine Peterson\u2019s application and forward it directly to President Trump, intentionally bypassing the usual, establishment-heavy procedure that relies on advice from the Alaska Bar Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/truepres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1000021580.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1217\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peterson, a registered Republican and the state\u2019s natural resources attorney, was nominated by President Donald Trump. His confirmation fills one of the oldest open seats in the entire U.S. federal court system\u2014a seat left vacant when Judge Tim Burgess retired at the end of 2021.A FAILED DEMOCRAT BLOCKADEWhile 39 Democrats voted \u201cNO\u201d in an attempt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7997,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995\/revisions\/7997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}