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Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., is opposing Perkins Coie attorney Sopen Shah's nomination to be U.S. attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, accusing her of partisan tweets that he says would undermine her ability to do the job.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., blamed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, his fellow Kentuckian, after the White House scrapped plans to nominate conservative, anti-abortion attorney Chad Meredith to a judicial vacancy in the Eastern District of Kentucky last week, saying Monday that McConnell didn't consult with him on the potential nomination.
The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden's first district court nominee from a state with two Republican senators Thursday and voted 58-33 on a procedural motion setting up a confirmation vote for U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs to the D.C. Circuit, a significant show of bipartisan support for two of Biden's judicial picks.
Former President Donald Trump ignored advisers' admonitions that his paths to challenge the election were closed, according to new testimony Tuesday from the House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Instead, he egged on supporters to attend the Jan. 6 rally, promising in a tweet it would be "wild!"
An Arizona attorney nominated to the Ninth Circuit defended her record working on contentious election cases and pledged to keep her personal and political views separate from her rulings on the bench during a Senate committee hearing Wednesday.