2024-05-17 08:10:17 Biden nominates Julie Rikelman, abortion attorney who misplaced top courtroom case, to a federal appeals courtroom - Democratic Voice USA
President Biden has nominated Julie Rikelman, the attorney who unsuccessfully defended abortion rights earlier than the Supreme Court, to a federal appeals courtroom.
Ms. Rikelman has a protracted file protecting abortion rights. She labored for the pro-choice Center for Reproductive Rights since 2011.
Mr. Biden now needs her at the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which contains the Districts of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico and Rhode Island.
She argued earlier than the top courtroom in December on the subject of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the place she represented the Mississippi hospital opposing the state’s 15-week ban on abortion.
The justices therefore dominated in opposition to Ms. Rikelman, upholding the state’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks and overruling the landmark 1973 case of Roe v. Wade, which gave ladies a countrywide proper to abortion.
Ms. Rikelman used to be born in Ukraine and attended Harvard.
Mr. Biden additionally named Maria Araujo Kahn, a Connecticut Supreme Court justice, for the second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals together with seven different district courtroom nominations.
It used to be his twenty fourth record of federal judicial appointments since taking place of job in January of 2021.
Mr. Biden has had 17 appeals courtroom judges and 54 district courtroom judges showed up to now, in addition to hisSupreme Court nominee, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, appointed to the country’s best possible courtroom.
