Republican Recommends Trump Tap Black Female Litigator for Bench

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) has recommended a former assistant US attorney and longtime congressional aide to be the first Black woman nominated for a federal judgeship in President Donald Trump’s second term.

Sheria Clarke, now a partner at the law firm Nelson Mullins, was submitted to the White House for consideration as the nominee to fill the lone vacancy on South Carolina’s US district court, according to two people familiar with the senator’s decisionmaking.

Clarke served three years as a line prosecutor in South Carolina’s US attorney’s office. She’s also worked over a decade in the US House, including as ...