President Biden nominated the veteran federal prosecutor in March, but political disputes between senators over other matters had held up her confirmation
The U.S. Senate voted Friday to confirm Tara McGrath as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California, installing her as the chief prosecutor and top federal law enforcement official in one of the busiest federal districts in the nation.The 52-37 vote took extraordinary political maneuvering due to the prospect of a looming federal government shutdown and Republican Ohio Sen. J.D.
California Sen. Alex Padilla’s office said Thursday that Padilla, a Democrat, had pressured Vance to lift his holds on two nominees for U.S. attorneys — McGrath and Todd Gee for the Southern District of Mississippi, who was confirmed 82-8 on Friday. Padilla’s office said Vance still slowed down the process by forcing a time-consuming floor vote on both candidates — McGrath’s vote took about 50 minutes — rather than allowing a much quicker unanimous consent vote.“Sen. Alex Padilla deserves substantial credit for challenging the blanket hold, which he forced Vance to admit had nothing to do with McGrath’s qualifications,” Carl Tobias, the Williams Chair in Law at the University of Richmond School of Law, wrote in an email Friday.
Democrats helped approve more than 80 of Trump’s U.S. attorney nominees on voice votes, “which is longstanding Senate custom,” according to Tobias, who tracks federal judge and U.S. attorney nominations. Tobias said it was unclear to him why so many Republicans voted against McGrath on Friday, particularly because a Senate Judiciary Committee review found no issues with her, and he viewed her as a mainstream nomination with bipartisan support. “That seems odd to me,” Tobias wrote. “I believe that no one has questioned her qualifications.”, served more than a decade as an assistant U.S. attorney in San Diego and Washington, D.C.
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