Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said he’ll consider adding more US district court nominees to an upcoming confirmation hearing after a GOP senator said he wouldn’t support a second President Joe Biden nominee from his state.
The decision by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) to withhold support on a US district nominee, and most recently, a US attorney nominee “does not appear to have been made in good faith,” Durbin said in a Wednesday statement.
Johnson announced Tuesday he wouldn’t support the nomination of Sopen Shah to be a US attorney due to her past tweets. He had recommended her ...