Biden’s Planned Nominee Would Be DC Circuit’s First Latino (2)

President Joe Biden plans to nominate a Justice Department lawyer and former Big Law appellate litigator as the first Latino on the powerful federal appeals court in Washington.

Bradley Garcia, 35, selected on Wednesday for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, is a deputy assistant attorney general with the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel.

The Harvard Law graduate and former clerk to Justice Elena Kagan was also a partner in the the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group at O’Melveny and Myers.

Garcia was among Biden’s three circuit and four district nominees who included Magistrate ...