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First Obama Judicial Nominees Near Senate Vote

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"Circuit Nominees, DOJ Nominee Head to Full Senate," is David Ingram's report today at National Law Journal.The Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday overwhelmingly endorsed two presidential nominees for prominent legal positions: Andre Davis for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Thomas Perez for a spot with the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. But, in a warm-up for the confirmation debate over Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, senators divided sharply along party lines over Judge David Hamilton of Indiana, nominated for the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The three nominations now head to the full Senate. Davis, a federal judge for the District of Maryland, would fill one of four vacancies on the historically conservative 4th Circuit...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 05, 2009 (boomark / email).