Stay updated with breaking news from James Arkin. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
The White House said Thursday that President Joe Biden had nominated two Black women for vacancies on the D.C. Circuit and Eleventh Circuit, bringing the total number of federal judicial nominees this year to 75 as he pushes to diversify the bench.
Judge Alison J. Nathan, a Second Circuit nominee, defended her judicial record and pledged to leave personal views out of her decision making when pressed by Republican senators about a variety of contentious issues during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing Wednesday.
Judge Alison J. Nathan, a Second Circuit nominee, defended her judicial record and pledged to leave personal views out of her decision making when pressed by Republican senators about a variety of contentious issues during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing Wednesday.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to hold Mark Meadows, a former Republican congressman and chief of staff to former President Donald Trump, in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena for testimony from the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
The Senate voted 50-49 along party lines to confirm Jennifer Sung to the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday, making her the second of President Joe Biden's nominees added to that court and the 11th appellate court pick confirmed by the Senate this year.