3:11 pm Mar. 22, 20122
The Senate voted this afternoon to confirm Ronnie Abrams as a district court judge for New York, the first court confirmation for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who called Abrams "a superbly qualified female jurist."
Abrams was a prosecutor in the Southern District, where she will now sit on the bench, before serving as special counsel for pro bono initiatives at the firm Davis Polk & Wardwell.
She's also comes from legal royalty. Her father is Floyd Abrams, the famous First Amendment lawyer, and her brother is the occasional legal commentator and founder of Mediaite, Dan Abrams.
As a young child, her father tested his oral arguments on her, according to a 2006 profile of the family in the New York Observer:
There was a time, when Ronnie was around 11, when I used to use her in particular as a sounding board for oral arguments,” said Mr. Abrams père. “I found that she had about the same level of patience as most judges. She would say, ‘What are your cases about?’ She’d listen for a minute or two. She’d ask, ‘What do you say? And what do they say?’ Then she would rule.
Ronnie, it appears, declined to be quoted for the piece.
Gillibrand made the case for Abrams, and for more women on the federal bench, in her remarks on the Senate floor:
More Jews on the Bench why dont we just say in order to be a judge u have to be a jew-enough with Jews controlling finance, justice and Pentagon- the smallest minority controlling USA in all but name except for the WH and their they control POTUS by blackmail
I am all for equal justice not selctive Justice for the Jews, why not a Muslim, Buddist or a Chinese with huge following from these culture in NY, 1/3 of Muslims in the world and no Federal Judge except for NJ Judge a Muslim-why not Muslims lead the world in scholastic achivements but they cannot be a Judge in USA-shame on you Gillibrand u r a disgrace for your underhanded tactics-you saw what happened to Senator Clinton and what Rush did to her, GOP trully believes the Clintons are murderers and so does 50% of of US Palanites
You are a racist and vile anti-semite!!!
Oppose the judge as I do for being a liberal!