President Joe Biden isn’t resubmitting two judicial selections for US district courts from last Congress after issues with their nominations, a White House spokesperson said.
William Pocan, picked for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, won’t be renominated “at this time” after he faced opposition from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). And Jorge Alberto Rodriguez, tapped for the Northern District of New York, won’t be renominated after the judge he was nominated to replace rescinded plans to leave the bench.
The nominations were left off Biden’s second list of renominations sent to the US Senate Monday. A ...
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