Reuters: Senate panel deadlocks on 3rd Circuit nominee Arianna Freeman
This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on April 4, 2022.
Biden has pushed to increase the racial and gender diversity on the federal bench and to draw nominees from beyond the traditional pool of lawyers from big law firms and prosecutor offices.
He has nominated 23 current and former public defenders, according to the progressive group Alliance for Justice, including Jackson and Freeman, a lawyer at the Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.