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[12] [13] Bjelkengren received a "Qualified" rating from the American Bar Association. [14] On May 11, 2023, her nomination was reported out of committee by a party-line 11–10 vote. [15] [16] Her nomination was again returned to the president on January 3, 2024. [17] On January 9, 2024, Bjelkengren withdrew her name from consideration as a ...
Motivated in part by this concern, in 1977 the American Bar Association (ABA) formed the Kutak Commission (formally the Commission on Evaluation of Professional Standards) for the purpose of evaluating the adequacy of the existing ethics rules, including the Model Code of Professional Responsibility. [29]
On December 23, 2024, President Joe Biden vetoed the JUDGES Act. In his veto statement, Biden expressed concerns that the legislation was expedited without adequately resolving critical questions, particularly regarding the allocation of new judgeships and the consideration of the roles of senior status judges and magistrate judges in assessing ...
On March 1, 2024, Burke entered an order declaring the Corporate Transparency Act to be unconstitutional. National Small Business United v. Janet Yellen, No. 5:22-cv-1448 (U.S.D.C. N.D. Ala. 3/1/2024). In February 2025, Burke publicly reprimanded three attorneys for "judge-shopping", by dropping a case and refiling in a different district court ...
Michael B. Brennan (of Wisconsin): On August 3, 2017, Trump nominated Brennan, a former Judge on the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, to serve as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, to the seat vacated by Judge Terence T. Evans, who assumed senior status on January 17, 2010. [173]
Biden’s judges include many former civil rights lawyers, labor lawyers and public defenders, breaking from the mold of prosecutors and corporate lawyers that previous presidents tended to lean on.
Ana Isabel de Alba (born 1979) [1] is an American attorney who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.She previously served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California from 2022 to 2023.
From 2012 to 2017, Johnson worked as a litigation associate at the Atlanta law firm of Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs, LLP. From 2017 to 2025, she served as an assistant United States attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia; she served in the office's civil division until 2020, when she was transferred to its criminal division.