WASHINGTON – Louisiana Supreme Court Justice William Crain was confirmed Tuesday by the U.S. Senate for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench in New Orleans.

The Senate voted 49 to 46 to allow Crain, 64, join the U.S. court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Both Louisiana’s senators – Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, and John Kennedy, R-Madisonville – voted in favor of confirming Crain.

Crain, 64, was elected to the Louisiana Supreme Court in 2019 after spending a decade as judge on the state’s First Circuit Court of Appeal and on the 22nd Judicial District bench covering the communities on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. He had been a trial lawyer in Covington for 23 years before being elected to the bench.

A Bogalusa native, Crain graduated from LSU in 1983, then receiv

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