The Senate Judiciary Committee had few questions today for two of President Barack Obama’s nominees for the Southern District bench, signaling a potentially easy path to confirmation in the months ahead. No Republican senators were present to question the two nominees, Paul Engelmayer and J. Paul Oetken, and the two Democrats in attendance called themselves strong supporters.
The nominees faced friendly questions from the Democrats about their experience and how they would transition to the federal bench. Mr. Engelmayer, the head of the New York office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, said a judge should be modest and listen to litigants. “The judge is not the center of attention. It is not the judge that parties come to court to see,” he said in response to a question from Senator Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. Mr. Schumer, who recommended Messrs. Engelmayer and Oetken to the White House, presided over the confirmation hearing.
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