(Clockwise, from top left) Florida Senators Rick Scott and Marco Rubio, U.S. Magistrate Judge Embry Kidd of the Middle District of Florida, and Detra Shaw Wilder, general counsel at Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton. (Credit: ALM/Handout) Florida Senators Refuse to Advance Judicial Nominees Post-Trump Conviction
"It is difficult to understand what they're doing," said a law school professor who studies federal judicial appointments. "It has nothing to do with the merits of the nominees."
June 03, 2024 at 11:44 AM
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What You Need to Know
- Republican Senators have pledged to oppose President Biden's judicial nominees in reaction to the conviction of former President Trump for falsifying business records.
- The stance could mean that federal judicial nominees, including at least two in Florida, may not be appointed before the November election or at all.
- The senators appeared to have tapped into the disappointment some Am Law 200 firm partners feel about the former president's conviction.
Since Friday, nearly a dozen senators have pledged to oppose all of President Biden's judicial nominees in the run-up to the November election.
"The White House has made a mockery of the rule of law and fundamentally altered our politics in un-American ways," Florida Senators Rick Scott and Marco Rubio pledged in a letter with six of their colleagues, that has since been joined by others. "As a Senate Republican Conference, we are unwilling to aid and abet this White House in its project to tear this country apart."
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