Today the Senate Judiciary Committee held over votes on the nominations of Stephen A. Higginson, nominee to be United States Circuit Court for the Fifth Circuit; Jane M. Triche-Milazzo, nominee to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Alison J. Nathan and Katherine B. Forrest, nominees to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York; and Susan O. Hickey, nominee to the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, until the committee’s next business meeting. The committee did not vote on the nomination of Steve Six to the United States Circuit Court for the Tenth Circuit, which was also on the agenda.
Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee held a nominations hearing for five nominees: Judge Christopher Droney, nominee to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals; Robert Scola, nominee to the Southern District of Florida; Robert Mariani, nominee to the Middle District of Pennsylvania; and Cathy Bissoon and Mark Hornak, nominees to the Western District of Pennsylvania. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) presided and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the ranking Republican on the Committee, joined Senator Blumenthal in posing questions to the nominees.
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