Biden To Nominate Diverse Slate Of 11 Federal Judges

Axios reports:

President Biden on Tuesday announced plans to nominate 11 judges to the federal courts, including D.C. District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace former D.C. Circuit Court Judge Merrick Garland, who is now U.S. attorney general.

The nominees include three Black women, and could seat the first Muslim federal judge in the country’s history, the first AAPI woman to ever serve on the D.C. District Court, and the first woman of color as a federal judge for the District of Maryland, according to the White House.

The selections “reflect the president’s deeply-held conviction that the federal bench should reflect the full diversity of the American people,” the White House wrote in a news release.

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JUST IN: Biden has announced plans to nominate 11 judges to the federal courts, including D.C. District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace former D.C. Circuit Court Judge Merrick Garland, who is now U.S. attorney general. https://t.co/YyKtm4pzX7

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