Two judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit seemed at odds Thursday over whether to revive a racial discrimination suit by an Asian American woman who claimed that she was improperly terminated from her position and replaced by a white worker.

Second Circuit Judge Rosemary S. Pooler Second Circuit Judge Rosemary S. Pooler

The dispute, on appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, pitted U.S. Circuit Judge Rosemary S. Pooler, a 1998 appointee of former President Bill Clinton, against U.S. Circuit Judge Joseph F. Bianco, who was appointed to the court by former President Donald Trump in 2019.

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