WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A Columbia University law professor who helped prosecute Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City.
Debra Ann Livingston was approved 91-0 to sit on the court, which hears appeals from federal district courts of Connecticut, New York and Vermont. Both of New York's Democratic senators, Charles Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton, voted for her.
Livingston has been a professor at Columbia since 1994, teaching classes on criminal procedure, evidence and national security and terrorism law.
She also was a federal prosecutor in Manhattan from 1986 to 1991, handling criminal cases including the racketeering case against the former president of the Philippines and his wife. The Marcoses were alleged to have plundered their homeland of hundreds of millions of dollars and defrauded U.S. banks. Ferdinand Marcos died in 1989; his wife was acquitted in 1990.
From 1994 to 2003, Livingston served as a commissioner on the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board, which investigates civilian complaints of police misconduct.
Livingston was nominated to the bench by President Bush last June.
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