The Senate Judiciary Committee managed to clear one of POTUS's judicial nominees while tabling five others in part due to the absence of SenFeinstein. Chairman SenatorDurbin commended Sen MikeCrapo and SenatorRisch for helping fill the vacancy.
The committee met to vote on Amanda Brailsford, who has been nominated to the U.S. Court for the District of Idaho. Chairman Richard Durbin commended Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch for helping fill the vacancy.Durbin has called for more GOP members to assist Democrats in confirming judicial appointments. Democrats need bipartisan support to advance nominees for votes due to the absence of Feinstein, who has been away from Washington since February while she recovers from shingles.
“As I’ve mentioned before, during the Trump administration, Democratic senators signed 110 blue slips,” Durbin said. “So far, there have been 17 blue slips signed by Republicans during the Biden administration. I plead with my colleagues to make a good faith effort to sit down and see if they can reach an agreement with the White House on nominees.”
Judicial nominees on the agenda who were not voted on include Michael Arthur Delaney, nominated to be U.S. Circuit judge for the First Circuit; Charnelle Bjelkengren, nominated to be U.S. District judge for the Eastern District of Washington; S. Kato Crews, nominated to be U.S. District judge for the District of Colorado; Marian F. Gaston, nominated to be U.S. District judge for the Southern District of California; and Molly R. Silfen, nominated to be a judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
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