The White House is pushing back on complaints from Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) that he wasn’t consulted about the nomination of the state’s first American Indian federal judge.
Daines said this week that the path forward for Danna Jackson’s nomination is “uncertain” since he wasn’t contacted in advance of the announcement on April 24.
“Danna Jackson interviewed with Senator Daines’ staff in October 2023—seven months before her nomination,” a White House official said in an emailed statement. “The Senator’s office was aware that Jackson was being vetted well before she was nominated.”
Jackson, the tribal attorney for the Confederated Salish ...
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