Posted on 04/27/2022 7:30:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
(Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday moved to further diversify the federal bench in terms of demographics and job experience with five new judicial nominees, including two women with backgrounds as public defenders selected as appellate judges.
Biden nominated Lara Montecalvo, the top public defender in Rhode Island, to serve on the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and U.S. District Judge Sarah Merriam in Connecticut to join the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The nominees also include Ana Reyes, a litigator at law firm Williams & Connolly who immigrated to the United States as a child and would become the first Hispanic woman and openly LGBTQ person to serve as a district court judge in Washington, D.C.
Combined with two other district court nominees in New York and Virginia, Biden has nominated 92 federal appellate and district court judges since taking office last year.
Senate Democrats are racing to confirm as many of the nominees as they can before the November midterm elections while they retain their narrow 50-50 control of the chamber.
A majority of Biden's picks have been women and people of color. Many have backgrounds other than as corporate lawyers or prosecutors, more traditional career paths for judges, including 27 who were current or former public defenders representing indigent defendants.
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Gee, I thought Federal Judges needed experience on the bench. Also, from my limited experience attending friends’ courtroom appearances, public defenders are largely cluelessly ill equipped to face prosecutors in court.
Williams & Connelly. Nothing good roams the halls in that office. Beltway political machine.
Yeah, but Ana Reyes would become the “first Hispanic woman and openly LGBTQ person to serve as a district court judge in Washington, D.C.”!
We should all be celebrating this HUGE milestone!
Conservative, white, Christian, heterosexual males need not apply.
It’s a battle...
LGBTQ on one side and CWCHM on the other.
(that’s “Conservative, White, Christian, Heterosexual Males”)
I doubt of any of them really defended the public, more likely they defended the criminals.
LOL
That was such a good one it didn’t need the sarc tag
Our Senate of the United States will consent to this latest batch of anti-American punks.
Thank the progressive 17th Amendment.
Yes, I noticed the complete lack of males in most of his appointments.
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