Judge Lydia Griggsby, Biden's expected nominee for the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, would be the first Black woman and first woman of color to serve on the federal bench in that district, the White House said. Other nominees are: Tiffany Cunnin...
President-elect Trump warned Senate Republicans on Tuesday against cutting a deal with Democrats to fast-track a final batch of President Biden’s nominees through the Senate before adjourning later this week. “To all Senate Republicans: NO DEAL WITH DE
Under the 12th Amendment to the Constitution, the presidential and vice presidential nominees need to come from different states or otherwise they will lose their shared home state’s electors. “There was a guarantee to be a challenge,” Rubio said, “and when you have...
"The more partisan the voting becomes, the less belief that the public is likely to have that Congress is making a merit-based or qualifications-based assessment of judicial nominees," the liberal justice said on the Senate confirmation process. Biden's nomination of Jackson for the Supreme Cou...
The nominees, which include nine women, must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The three Black women nominated for federal circuit court vacancies are Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Tiffany Cunningham for the U.S. Court...
Under the 12th Amendment to the Constitution, the presidential and vice presidential nominees need to come from different states or otherwise they will lose their shared home state’s electors. “There was a guarantee to be a challenge,” Rubio said, “and when you have so many other good ...
The Senate recently voted 51 to 44 to confirm former prosecutor April Perry as a U.S. District Court judge in northern Illinois. More than a dozen pending judicial nominees have advanced out of the Senate Judiciary Committee; eight judicial nominations are awaitin...
The Senate this week voted 51-44 to confirm former prosecutor April Perry as a U.S. District Court judge in northern Illinois.More than a dozen pending judicial nomineeshave advanced out of the Senate Judiciary Committee; eight judicial nominations are awaiting committ...
Neither Manchin nor Sinema has voted against any of Biden’s lower court nominees so far – including Biden’s picks for the federal judiciary who have attracted significant Republican heat. Related article Joe Biden's 2022 just got a lot better Manchin and Sinema stuck with the rest of ...
district court seats where Republican home state senators and the White House could not reach agreement on a nominee – and Democrats have 17 nominees ready to fill them pending on the floor. There are around nine – depending on what the calendar will allow – other Biden nominees who could...