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19 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Biden just officially submitted his first batch of judicial nominees to the Senate.
6 district court nominees and 3 appeals court nominees.
Also 1 nominee to a DC superior court. That's a 15-year term.

The other 9 are nominees to lifetime federal judgeships.
In other words, now Senate Judiciary Committee chair Dick Durbin can start holding confirmation hearings.

The fun begins!

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21 Apr
Just caught Lisa Murkowski's floor speech on why she sided with Democrats and helped narrowly confirm Vanita Gupta as asst AG.

Alaska tribes had a lot of sway in her decision.

Murkowski is looking out for Alaska Native women facing horrific levels of domestic violence.
Gupta will oversee DOJ's Office of Violence Against Women. She's been a leader on VAWA + has real experience addressing violence against women.

Murkowski said she talked to Gupta for a long time about justice and the "tragedy" that Native women face such high levels of violence.
Particularly in Alaska, Native women "experience rates of domestic violence and sexual assault that are shocking, disturbing and wrong," said Murkowski.

Despite all that's been done, "we have not been able to turn the corner" on stemming this "scourge."
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11 Apr
I see Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) has a new op/ed out talking about her fight to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.

It is so full of mischaracterizations and spin it's hard to know where to begin with this. I will try.

(1/) usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
Ernst says Dems keep trying to "hijack" VAWA "for their own agenda on everything from gun control to sexual orientation."

On the gun control bit, she's referring to Dems trying to update VAWA so someone who has been *convicted* of abusing a person they're dating can't get a gun.
That provision, which would close the "boyfriend loophole," is in the bipartisan VAWA bill that the House passed last month.

It won't be in Ernst's alternative VAWA bill. Why?

The NRA opposes it + has warned a vote for it will negatively effect lawmakers' NRA ratings. (3/)
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9 Apr
It's been more than 2 years since Congress let the Violence Against Women Act's authorization expire.

It's one of President Joe Biden’s signature issues ― and it’s still not clear how or if the Senate will get it done. huffpost.com/entry/violence…
Congress used to reauthorize VAWA with massive, bipartisan votes.

But Senate Republicans let it expire in 2019 because they didn't like the bill everyone else supported. Why? It expanded protections to LGBTQ and Native victims of violence + included a gun safety provision.
Senate Republicans were in such disarray over reauthorizing VAWA in 2019 that they couldn’t even agree with each other on what they wanted in their own bill. huffpost.com/entry/violence…
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30 Mar
Interesting call just now with senior admin official on the thinking behind Biden's first batch of judicial nominees.

WH is clearly very proud of the diversity of these people. They should be. Lots of women, people of color and non-corporate lawyers.
Notable how much this WH seems eager to focus on the professional diversity of nominees -- something even Obama, for all his historic court picks, did not do.

Senior admin official said several times that public defenders + civil rights lawyers bring a "critical" perspective.
I asked where this particular push on professional diversity is coming from, whether it's people on the WH legal team, outside groups, etc.

"This comes from the president," said the senior admin official.
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30 Mar
At last! Biden announced his first batch of judicial nominees this morning.

11 nominees.

10 are for appeals court and district court seats.
1 is for a superior court seat in DC.
Let's talk diversity in this mix.

3 African American women for appeals court seats. That's a big deal.

As of December (and I think it's still true), there are only 5 Black women judges out of the 179 currently confirmed to an appeals court seat.
Biden's mix of judicial nominees also includes someone who would be the first Muslim American federal judge in U.S. history, the first AAPI woman to serve on the DC district court and the first woman of color to serve as a federal judge in Maryland.
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29 Mar
Alaska Republican Kelly Tshibaka announces she's running against Lisa Murkowski in 2022.

She's running far to the right of Murkowski.

Her ad dings Murkowski for voting for Deb Haaland, which... Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan also did. And Alaska Rep. Don Young backed Haaland, too.
Here's Tshibaka on why people should elect her: "Nothing scares the D.C. political insiders more than the thought of a strong, independent Alaskan leader in their ranks. One they can’t bully. One they can’t control."

Isn't that describing... Murkowski?
For some context on Murkowski's steady and appreciated independent streak back home, a piece I reported out from Alaska in 2017. huffpost.com/entry/lisa-mur…
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