Democratic senators expressed concern that a federal judicial nominee wouldn’t acknowledge implicit racial bias in the criminal justice system, at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Jan. 24.
Democrats also criticized Republicans for scheduling the hearing for Michael B. Brennan, whom President Donald Trump nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, despite the refusal of a home-state senator to return a “blue slip” approving Brennan.
The Trump administration has already seen 12 circuit nominees confirmed, setting a record for a president in his first year.
Trump announced a “tenth wave of judicial nominees” Jan. 23, including ...
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