Biden Nominates Five Candidates to Fill Court Vacancies
President Joe Biden announced five new candidates for the federal bench on Tuesday, continuing an intense push by Democrats to fill court vacancies while they maintain the majority in the Senate.
Biden’s Tuesday nominees included three to the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, one to the District Court for the District of Columbia and one to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Notably, Biden’s circuit court pick, Myrna Pérez, is not a judge — an uncommon, though certainly not unprecedented, move. Pérez is the director of the Brennan Center’s Voting Rights and Elections Program at New York University’s law school and a lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School.
The Tuesday announcement brings the number of Biden’s announced federal judicial nominees to 24. The White House pointed out that the nominees are diverse in both “personal professional backgrounds,” something Democrats have said excites them about Biden’s court picks so far.
