WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Mustafa Kasubhai to be a federal judge, putting an end to Republicans’ baseless accusations that he is a Marxist because of a cheesy love poem he wrote decades ago as a student.
Kasubhai was confirmed 51 to 44.
President Joe Biden tapped Kasubhai, 54, for a lifetime seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. He has been a magistrate judge on this court since 2018. Before that, he was a county judge from 2007 to 2018.
Like they’ve done with a number of Biden’s court picks, Republicans baselessly tried to cast Kasubhai as a left-wing extremist during his confirmation hearing in Oct. 2023.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) asked him outright if he was a Marxist, which he denied. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said he had evidence to the contrary: a love poem Kasubhai wrote more than 30 years ago as a law school student, called “Sensualized Property Theory.”
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