JUST IN: In a victory for progressives, the Senate has confirmed ACLU voting rights attorney Dale Ho to be a lifetime federal judge https://t.co/fdvZEs6Jez
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) June 14, 2023
… Ho was confirmed 50 to 49 to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Every Republican voted no. Every Democrat, including the two independents who caucus with them, voted to confirm him, except for one: Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who is running for president, missed the vote.
Ho, 46, is considered one of the nation’s leading voting rights lawyers. He’s been the director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s voting rights project since 2013 and was previously a staff attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He argued two cases against the Trump administration at the Supreme Court, one of which successfully challenged former President Donald Trump’s plan to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census.
Ho has also led a racial justice clinic at New York University’s School of Law since 2014…
President Joe Biden has put forward record numbers of diverse court picks since taking office, both in terms of demographics and professional backgrounds. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), meanwhile, has been confirming his nominees at warp speed…
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