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-'''Robert S. Raymar''' (born [[September 20]], [[1947]]) is an American lawyer, a former New Jersey state official and a former federal judicial nominee to the [[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit]].
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-== Early life and education ==
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-Raymar earned a bachelor's degree in 1969 from [[Princeton University]] and a law degree in 1972 from [[Yale Law School]], where he was a classmate of both future President [[Bill Clinton]] and future Sen. [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]].<ref>[http://www.njinsider.com/law_firms03.htm New Jersey Insider: Law Firms H-M<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>  Raymar had edited the [[Yale Law Journal]] while in law school.<ref name="Robert S. Raymar, Esq">[http://www.hlgslaw.com/lawyers/RobertSRaymar.htm Robert S. Raymar, Esq<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
-== Professional career ==
-After graduating law school, Raymar worked as a law secretary for Judge [[Leonard I. Garth]] from 1972 until 1974, both before and after President Nixon elevated Garth from the U.S. District Court to the [[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit]] in 1973.  From 1974 until 1975, Raymar worked as Assistant Legal Counsel to New Jersey Gov. [[Brendan Byrne]].  He subsequently was Deputy Attorney General for the state of New Jersey.  Raymar became a partner at his current [[Newark, New Jersey]] law firm in 1979.<ref name="Robert S. Raymar, Esq"/>
-== Political involvement ==
-According to a Newark Star-Ledger article published on [[June 6]], [[1998]], Raymar coordinated a $2 million fundraising effort for Clinton by Yale alumni in 1992.  In 1996, Raymar was one of six finance co-chairs for Clinton's campaign in New Jersey.
-== Nomination to the Third Circuit ==
-On [[June 5]], [[1998]], President Clinton nominated Raymar to a vacancy on the Third Circuit that was created by the retirement of Judge [[H. Lee Sarokin]].  With the Senate under Republican control for the balance of Clinton's presidency and with Republicans loudly objecting to many of Clinton's judicial nominees, Raymar's nomination languished.  The Republican-controlled [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] declined to hold a hearing for Raymar, and the Senate adjourned at the end of 1998 without having acted on Raymar's nomination.
-Raymar had expected to be renominated to the seat in 1999.  "Basically the job of a nominee is to wait, as quietly as possible, until the Senate Judiciary Committee opens a slot on its docket," Raymar told the [[Philadelphia Inquirer]] in an article that was published on [[October 26]], [[1998]].  "After all, the Senate Judiciary Committee is doing a lot of other things."
-Raymar's nomination was not specifically held out by Republican senators as one to which they objected.  However, another previous federal judicial nominee who had been a major Clinton fundraiser, [[Charles "Bud" Stack]], had asked the president to withdraw his nomination in 1996 after significant Senate opposition.
-Ultimately, Clinton chose not to renominate Raymar to the Third Circuit seat.  He instead nominated [[Maryanne Trump Barry]] on [[June 17]], [[1999]] to Sarokin's former seat, and she was unanimously confirmed less than three months later.<ref>[http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=109 Judges of the United States Courts<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
-==References==
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-==External links==
-*[http://www.hlgslaw.com/lawyers/RobertSRaymar.htm Hellring Lindeman Goldstein & Siegal profile]
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