Feinstein’s absence has deadlocked the Senate Judiciary Committee, preventing many judicial nominees from being voted out.
President Joe Biden announced four federal judicial nominees on Wednesday, his thirty-third round of nominees, as the Senate’s process of confirming has been slowed down by Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her continued absence from the Senate—which Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer indicated could soon come to an end.Key Facts
The White House announced four nominees: Loren L. AliKhan as a nominee for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Susan K. DeClerq to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Julia K. Munley for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and Vernon D. Oliver for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.
AliKhan, a judge on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and former D.C. Solicitor General, would be the first South Asian woman to serve on that court if confirmed—as well as the court’s only active AAPI female judge—and DeClerq would be Michigan’s first federal judge of East Asian descent. The nominees will join 38 judicial nominees whose nominations have already been pending before the Senate, according to aFeinstein’s absence from the Senate as she recovers from shingles has
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