6/8/2023 0 Comments The Fireman by Joe Hill“The White House will consult with New Hampshire’s Senators to identify a new nominee. “President Biden put forward a deeply qualified nominee, with a long and distinguished career in public service,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said. Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin said the votes for Delaney weren’t there. The move comes after the Judiciary Committee failed to move his nomination forward for the second week in a row despite having full attendance and a Democratic majority with the return of California Sen. Delaney is the first Biden judicial nominee to run into this level of public resistance from members from the president’s own party.ĭelaney was not asked by the White House to withdraw his nomination, according to a source familiar with the matter. In his first two years in office, Biden broke records with his pace of judicial confirmations – an effort that rested on Democratic senators being unified behind his choices for the federal bench because of the Senate’s 50-50 split last term. The withdrawal comes as Biden’s push to confirm new judicial nominees has slowed this year. Embattled judicial nominee Michael Delaney has asked President Joe Biden to withdraw his nomination for a prestigious appeals court, according to a letter obtained by CNN.ĭelaney, a former attorney general of New Hampshire, had attracted the opposition of Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans and skepticism from the committee’s Democrats for a case where he represented an elite boarding school that was sued by a student who was sexually assaulted on its campus.
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