Republicans Ask for Second Hearing for New York Trial Court Pick

Senate Judiciary Republicans are making an unusual request for a rehearing on a President Joe Biden judicial nominee for a New York district court, saying she provided conflicting statements to the committee.

The nominee, Nusrat Jahan Choudhury, is legal director at the ACLU of Illinois and is nominated to serve as a district judge on the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

At a Thursday markup, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the panel’s ranking member, said committee Republicans wrote to Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) a day earlier asking for a rehearing regarding Choudhury’s responses to questions about ...