Senate Returns Two District Court Nominations to Judiciary Panel

The Senate Judiciary Committee will have to vote again this week on two trial court nominees sent back to the panel from the Senate floor.

The nominations of Eumi Lee to the Northern District of California and Mustafa Kasubhai to the District of Oregon were both returned the Judiciary Committee on Monday.

Two Judiciary Committee members had tried to cast proxy votes on the nominations during a Nov. 9 markup before coming back into the room and switching to being recorded as voting in person, according to a committee spokesperson. After the markup, the Parliamentarian said that didn’t cure the ...