Despite wide opposition from Democrats and groups like Planned Parenthood, the Senate confirmed James Leon Holmes to the U.S. District Court in Arkansas yesterday in a vote of 51 to 46. The vote followed debate over Holmes’ position on abortion, women’s rights, race and separation of church and state. He has written that the role of “the wife is to subordinate herself to her husband,” compared pro-choice activists to “Nazis,” said that rape victims don’t often get pregnant, and compared abortion to slavery.