Eric E. Murphy | |
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Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit | |
Assumed office March 11, 2019 | |
Appointed by | Donald Trump |
Preceded by | Alice M. Batchelder |
9th Solicitor General of Ohio | |
In office September 9,2013 –January 14,2019 | |
Attorney General | Mike DeWine |
Preceded by | Alexandra Schimmer |
Succeeded by | Ben Flowers |
Personal details | |
Born | 1979 (age 44–45) Indianapolis,Indiana,U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Education | Miami University (BA) University of Chicago (JD) |
Eric Earl Murphy (born November 6,1979) [1] is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2019 as a U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He previously served as the Solicitor General of Ohio from 2013 to 2019.
Murphy was born in 1979 in Indianapolis,Indiana. He graduated from Miami University in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts,summa cum laude,with Phi Beta Kappa honors. After working as a grocery clerk for a year,he attended the University of Chicago Law School,where he was a member of the University of Chicago Law Review . He graduated in 2005 with a Juris Doctor with high honors and Order of the Coif membership. [1]
After law school,Murphy was a law clerk to Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 2005 to 2006 and for Justice Anthony Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court from 2006 to 2007. He then became an associate in the appellate practice of the law firm Jones Day in its Columbus,Ohio office. [2] He became the Solicitor General of Ohio under Attorney General Mike DeWine in 2013. [3] [4]
He is a member of the Federalist Society. [5]
On June 7,2018,President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Murphy to serve as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. [4] On June 18,2018,his nomination was sent to the Senate. President Trump nominated Murphy to the seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit being vacated by Judge Alice M. Batchelder,who previously announced her decision to assume senior status on a date to be determined. [6] In June 2018,U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown said he did not plan to return a blue slip for Murphy's nomination,while U.S. Senator Rob Portman said he planned to support Murphy's nomination. [7] On October 10,2018,a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. [8]
On January 3,2019,his nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI,Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate. On January 23,2019,President Trump announced his intent to renominate Murphy for a federal judgeship. [9] His nomination was sent to the Senate later that day. [10] On February 7,2019,his nomination was reported out of committee by a 12–10 vote. [11] On March 6,2019,the Senate invoked cloture on his nomination by a 53–46 vote. [12] On March 7,2019,his nomination was confirmed by a 52–46 vote. [13] He received his judicial commission on March 11,2019. [14]
On December 3,2021,in Gun Owners of America,Inc. v. Garland,19 F.4th 980 (6th Cir. 2021),an evenly divided Sixth Circuit affirmed the denial of a preliminary injunction against a rule issued by the ATF declaring bump-stock devices to be illegal machine guns under federal law. Judge Eric Murphy authored a dissenting opinion joined by seven other members of the court that would have enjoined the ATF’s new rule,explaining that the “policy debate over whether to ban bump stocks”belongs “with the legislative branch accountable to the people”rather than an administrative agency or the judiciary. [15] In Garland v. Cargill ,602 U.S. 406 (2024),the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that bump-stock devices are not machine guns under existing federal law.
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