GOP Presses Ninth Circuit Pick on Transgender Bathroom Access

A Joe Biden nominee for the nation’s largest federal appeals court faced pointed questions from Republicans about her position in briefs opposing restrictions on transgender bathroom access.

Senate Judiciary Committee GOP members drew the hot-button issue into the hearing on Wednesday by asking Holly Thomas, a nominee to the San Francisco-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, whether she agreed with language in briefs she signed while working for New York State’s solicitor general.

Thomas, a judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court, declined to answer directly, citing California’s code of judicial ethics and the fact ...