HUFFINGTON POST: The Senate made history on Tuesday with its vote to confirm Darrin Gayles to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Gayles, who was confirmed 98-0, is the nation’s first openly gay African-American man to be confirmed to the federal bench. His vote came just after the Senate confirmed Staci Yandle to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, by a vote of 52-44. She marks some milestones of her own as the first black lesbian federal judge in two decades and the second one in the nation’s history. The first, Judge Deborah Batts, was sworn in during June 1994…
The latest confirmations come as the Senate has been plowing through President Barack Obama’s nominees, and they reflect the diversity that will remain on the federal judiciary long after he is gone… (more)
EDITOR: This ain’t the USA of the 1950s! But for that matter, the 1950s wasn’t the USA of 1900. Nor was the USA of 1900 that of 1850… and so forth. No generation owns the country or its future.
