WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate yesterday unanimously confirmed Judge Denny Chin to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, as Democrats continued to inch through a backlog of judicial nominees.

The confirmation removes some of the pressure from the busy Second Circuit, which faced the prospect of as many as five vacancies among its 13 active judgeships.

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