Senate Judiciary Committee Will Vote on Norton's Senatorial Courtesy Judicial Nominees Thursday
Senate Judiciary Committee Will Vote on Norton's Senatorial Courtesy Judicial Nominees Thursday
September 22. 2010
WASHINGTON, DC -- On Thursday, September 23, at 10:00 a.m. in 226 Dirksen Senate Building, the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on two of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's (D-DC) U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia nominees, Beryl A. Howell and Robert L. Wilkins, both of which are District residents.
President Obama, like President Clinton, granted Norton senatorial courtesy, a privilege usually reserved for home-state senators, to recommend federal district court judges, the U.S. Attorney, and other important federal law enforcement officials in the District. Norton's recommendations for District of Columbia U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen, and U.S. Parole Commission Chairman Isaac Fulwood, Jr., have been confirmed and are currently serving. The Congresswoman appointed a 17-member commission of D.C. residents, chaired by Pauline Schneider, to investigate candidates and make recommendations, which she uses to help select her final choices to submit to the President.