TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 30, 2015

Tennessee’s two Republican senators, Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander, introduced Memphis lawyer Edward Stanton III to the Senate Judiciary Committee today and expressed support for his confirmation, the Commercial Appeal reports. President Obama nominated Stanton in May to serve as U.S. district judge for the Western District of Tennessee. He is currently serving as the U.S. attorney for the Western district. At the hour-long hearing, Stanton promised to be fair and impartial from the bench, endorsed alternatives to incarceration and argued that mandatory minimum sentences can be effective in certain cases.