WASHINGTON _ South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott expressed "confidence" in Kenneth Lee's nomination to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California, despite the Los Angeles-based lawyer's controversial past writing on race, gender and affirmative action.
Scott, who has previously opposed other judicial nominees with fraught histories on race, told McClatchy in an interview Wednesday morning that Lee "has the type of body of work that makes me very confident in his candidacy."
"I have not heard so far anything that would cause me to turn in an opposite direction," he added.
