Majority Leader Schumer Statement On The Confirmation Of Dale Ho To Serve As A District Judge On The United States District Court For The Southern District Of New York
Washington, D.C.– Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today released the following statement after Dale Ho was confirmed to serve as a district judge on the prestigious United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Schumer forwarded the name of Dale Ho for the Southern District of New York to the Biden-Harris administration and has championed his nomination.
“I am confident Dale Ho will follow the facts and administer justice fairly. I am proud to have recommended Mr. Ho, and to have championed his nomination.
“Dale Ho is one of the foremost election law, civil rights and voting rights experts in the country, and with a national focus on voting rights, his perspective will be invaluable in ensuring the federal judiciary fulfills its obligation to ensure equal justice for all. He is an extremely accomplished attorney, a graduate of Princeton and Yale Law School, who has argued cases before the Supreme Court, and has dedicated his career to equal justice under the law.
“Mr. Ho will undoubtedly bring a deep commitment to adhering to the rule of law, and equal justice to his post on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, as well as profound integrity, talent and expertise to the federal bench.”
The bio for Dale Ho is below:
Dale is the Director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project and supervises the ACLU’s voting rights litigation nationwide. In this role, he has argued two cases before the United States Supreme Court: Trump v. New York, challenging the exclusion of undocumented immigrants from the population count used to apportion the House of Representatives; and Department of Commerce v. New York, successfully challenging the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census. He also served as lead counsel in Fish v. Kobach, successfully challenging a Kansas law requiring people to show a birth certificate or passport when registering to vote.
Prior to joining the ACLU, Dale was Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP where he litigated both civil and criminal cases; and a judicial law clerk, first to Judge Barbara S. Jones, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and then to Judge Robert S. Smith, New York Court of Appeals. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and Princeton University. While in law school, Mr. Ho interned for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and for the Southern Center for Human Rights.
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