Two Biden appellate picks with military backgrounds encountered conservative pushback at their Senate confirmation hearing despite their nominations being praised as templates for bipartisan cooperation in judicial appointments.
The nominations of Joshua Kolar, picked for an Indiana seat on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and Richard Federico, tapped for a Kansas vacancy in the Tenth Circuit, were the result of coordination between home-state Republican senators and the Democratic-led White House.
“It’s very heartening to see our Republican and Democratic colleagues working together on circuit nominations,” Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, the top Republican on the ...
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