A dearth of new judicial nominees led to a quieter-than-usual U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, as progressives voiced concern that Republicans were slowing the nomination process down by withholding 'blue slips' supporting potential new judges in their home states.
Progressive groups question if Republicans are withholding "blue slips"
Only two candidates for lifetime positions as judges appeared before the panel for its first judicial nominations hearing in five weeks, even though two of President Joe Biden's other nominees were pending long enough to appear before it too. The Senate on Wednesday added to that record by confirming Biden's 118th judicial nominee, voting 53-43 to make U.S. Magistrate Judge Gordon Gallagher a district court judge in Colorado.
The longest pending of those two is Scott Colom, a Mississippi district attorney, who has the confirmed support of only one of his state's two Republican senators, Roger Wicker.
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