Dobbs Abortion Case Lawyer Reaches Senate Floor for Judgeship

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 ...