Senate Democrats plan to hold a procedural floor vote to advance the nomination of Julie Rikelman, a Center for Reproductive Rights lawyer nominated to a federal appeals court seat.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) filed cloture Monday on the nomination of Rikelman to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Rikelman represented the Mississippi abortion clinic in the US Supreme Court case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, that overturned the constitutional right to abortion last year. The Senate Judiciary Committee had deadlocked on Rikelman’s nomination last Congress as Republicans questioned whether her personal views would cloud how she approaches cases.
Schumer on Monday again filed cloture on voting rights lawyer Dale Ho’s nomination to the Southern District of New York. Senate Democrats had canceled a cloture vote on Ho on June 7 because of an attendance issue, Schumer said at the time.
Ho, a voting rights lawyer with the ACLU, has waited more than 20 months for confirmation to the federal district court covering Manhattan.
Schumer also filed cloture on the nomination of Nusrat Jahan Choudhury to be a trial court judge in the Eastern District of New York. Choudhury would be the first Muslim woman ever to serve as an Article III federal judge.
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