President Biden announced his third slate of nominations to the federal judiciary. The circuit nominees, if confirmed, will fill vacancies in the First Circuit, Second Circuit, and Tenth Circuit, and the group includes the chief judge of the District of Puerto Rico and the first Native American judge in Washington State history. All three nominees have also been public defenders at one point. President Biden has also nominated judges for the District of Massachusetts, the Western District of Washington, and the District of New Jersey.
President Biden has made 19 nominations to the federal judiciary. None of been given a vote or confirmed yet.
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Click here to read the White House press release.