Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On This Senate Continuing To Confirm President Biden’s Well-Qualified Judicial Nominees
Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on upcoming nominations being considered on the Senate floor including Anthony Johnstone to be Circuit Court Judge for the 9th Circuit. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:
It’s going to be another busy week here on the floor of the US Senate.
Later today, the Senate will vote on the confirmation of Anthony Johnstone of Montana to serve a lifetime appointment as a Circuit Court judge for the 9th Circuit. A graduate of Yale and the University of Chicago, Mr. Johnstone has a wealth of experience in both public service and private practice. As former members of the Montana Supreme court attest to, Mr. Johnstone has one of the “best legal minds and is the finest and most respected legal scholar in the State of Montana.”
At the end of last week, I also filed cloture on three additional district court judges from New Jersey and New York, and members should be advised I’ll be filing on additional judicial nominations later this evening. The Senate will work on processing all of these nominees over the course of the week.
Judicial nominees remain a top priority for the Senate.
Senate Democrats are proud we have confirmed 119 new judges under President Biden, including 31 Circuit Court judges, 87 District Court judges, and one groundbreaking Supreme Court Justice in Ketanji Brown Jackson. The diversity of these jurists is unlike anything our country has seen: 84 of these judges are women; 80 are people of color.
The Senate will add to that impressive tally over the course of this week.
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