Trump judicial 指名された人 runs into trouble over writings on 強姦
Neomi Rao, 大統領 Donald Trump's 指名された人 to fill a fedaral 控訴，上告s 法廷，裁判所 vacancy left by Brett Kavanaugh's ascension to the 最高裁判所
大統領 Donald Trump's 指名された人 to a 最高の，を越す judgeship was questioned closely in her 確定／確認 審理，公聴会 Tuesday about her past writings in which she appears to excuse 確かな 事例／患者s of 強姦.
Neomi Rao, 45, was tapped for a seat on the 連邦の 法廷，裁判所 of 控訴，上告s in Washington, filling a vacancy created when Brett Kavanaugh rose to the 最高裁判所.
The 指名／任命, like those to all other 連邦の judgeships, must be 確認するd by the US 上院.
Kavanaugh was 辛うじて 認可するd for his 最高裁判所 seat after a contentious 確定／確認 審理，公聴会 that 空気／公表するd an 告訴，告発 of 性の 強襲，強姦 that 時代遅れの from his high school years.
His 可能性のある 後継者 also is 取引，協定ing with questions from her past.
If a woman "drinks to the point where she can no longer choose, 井戸／弁護士席 getting to that point was part of her choice," Rao wrote in a college 出版（物） while …に出席するing Yale University in the 早期に 1990s.
In another of her college writings, she evoked "the dangerous feminist idealism which teaches women that they are equal."
On Tuesday, she was questioned at length about those 見解（をとる）s by members of the 上院 司法の 委員会.
上院議員 Patrick Leahy, a 民主党員 and former 委員会 chairman, said if Rao were to 押し進める those 見解（をとる）s of 強姦 as a 裁判官 it would result "in 犠牲者s too ashamed to come 今後, and it could also result in 陪審／陪審員団s excusing culpable 被告s."
Rao sought to distance herself from the writings, 説 she wrote them during "a time of 探検."
"Looking 支援する I cringe at some of the language that I used, I was young," she said. "I like to think that I have 円熟したd as a thinker, a writer and indeed as a person."
She also sought to 最小限に減らす her comments on alcohol as "ありふれた sense 観察 on some 活動／戦闘s that women could make to be いっそう少なく likely to be a 犠牲者 of such a horrible 罪，犯罪."
Rao, who 現在／一般に is director of the 行政's office of regulatory 事件／事情／状勢s, also was （刑事）被告 by her critics of 弱めるing 環境の 保護s and 支配するs against 差別.
During the 2016 （選挙などの）運動をする, Trump 約束d 保守的なs that he would 指名する 裁判官s who 株d their values. Since taking office, he has 得るd the 確定／確認 of 85 judicial 指名された人s and has 指名するd 50 others to 空いている judgeships.
