The D.C. Superior Court and D.C. Court of Appeals had been confronting a record number of empty seats.
nominated two prosecutors — Laura Crane and Veronica Sanchez — from the U.S. attorney’s office in the District to serve as judges in D.C. Superior Court.
Crane has prosecuted cases in the office since 2014 and had previously worked at the law firm WilmerHale. Sanchez has worked as a prosecutor since 2009 and had previously worked as a trial attorney in the antitrust division of the Justice Department. The judgeships in D.C. Superior Court and the D.C. Court of Appeals are federally appointed positions. But nominees for the D.C. courts go through a more complicated nomination process than federal judges across the country. The judges in the District are first selected by the city’s Judicial Nomination Commission, whose members are selected by locally and federally appointed officials. The commission sends its selections to the president, who nominates one and sends thatAdvertisementthe D.C.
According to the White House, the president’s nominations Wednesday make up the 23rd round of nominees for federal judicial positions and his tenth slate of nominations this year. He has put forward a total of 123 judicial nominees.
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