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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 10, 2016

USA Today is reporting that Donald Trump’s presidential election victory most likely means the end of U.S. Attorney Edward Stanton III’s prospects of becoming a federal judge. Stanton was nominated by President Barack Obama and has been waiting more than a year and a half for Senate confirmation. He is one of 52 Obama judicial nominees in limbo. “I can’t imagine that, with the change in government, any additional district judges will be confirmed,” said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Chattanooga. The Commercial Appeal has the story.