Biden Eleventh Circuit Pick Advances Out of Senate Judiciary (1)

The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced four federal appeals court nominees, including attorneys for the Southern Poverty Law Center and Center for Reproductive Rights, who have attracted intense Republican opposition.

Nancy Abudu, a top attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center, was reported favorably, 11-10, by the panel’s newly enlarged Democratic majority Thursday to a seat on the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Abudu would be the first Black woman to serve on the Eleventh Circuit. The panel deadlocked, 11-11, last May on Abudu’s nomination to the Atlanta-based court.

The panel also advanced the First Circuit nomination of ...