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Senate Democrats are returning from their summer break with dozens of judicial nominees pending and a two-month sprint to the midterm elections that will decide which party will control confirmation of judicial picks during the next two years of the Biden administration.

Senate Democrats are returning from their summer break with dozens of judicial nominees pending and a two-month sprint to the midterm elections that will decide which party will control confirmation of judicial picks during the next two years of the Biden administration.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state officials argued in a brief Wednesday that the Supreme Court should reject a petition challenging a divided Ninth Circuit ruling that allows the public release of a video recording of the historic 2010 federal court trial that overturned a state ballot initiative banning same-sex marriage.

Top Republican senators wrote to 12 chief circuit court judges Thursday urging them to receive commitments from the law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP that it will stick with current and future pro bono and other court case assignments even if they turn out to involve clients' Second Amendment rights.

The U.S. Department of Justice improperly shielded a memo to then-Attorney General Bill Barr related to whether former President Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice during the special counsel probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, a D.C. Circuit panel ruled Friday.

U.S. District Judge David N. Hurd of the Northern District of New York walked back his plan to move to senior status, saying in a letter to President Joe Biden Wednesday he has "unconditionally withdrawn" his move to semi-retirement and vowing to stay on active status for the "foreseeable future."

The Senate voted to confirm Roopali Desai to the Ninth Circuit on Thursday, an expedited approval that was the quickest and most bipartisan confirmation of a circuit court nominee since President Joe Biden took office last year.

The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced five of President Joe Biden's judicial picks Thursday, including U.S. Magistrate Judge Doris L. Pryor's nomination to the Seventh Circuit, but the panel deadlocked on Rachel Bloomekatz's nomination to the Sixth Circuit.

Federal appellate courts severely lack representation from judges with professional backgrounds in union-side labor law, employee wage and hour law, and civil legal aid, according to a new report Wednesday from the progressive organization Alliance for Justice.

Federal appellate courts severely lack representation from judges with professional backgrounds in union-side labor law, employee wage and hour law, and civil legal aid, according to a new report Wednesday from the progressive organization Alliance for Justice.