Tag: Judicial Nominations

The com­mit­tee hear­ings have wit­nessed the dog whis­tles of white suprema­cy, wild for­ays into irrel­e­vance, and the kind of raw dem­a­goguery that then-Sen­ate Judi­cia­ry Com­mit­tee Chair­man James East­land deployed on the first Black Amer­i­cans nom­i­nat­ed to the fed­er­al bench. It was a class­less effort by Repub­li­cans to dis­cred­it a nom­i­nee who embod­ies class.

Cantwell and Sen­a­tor Pat­ty Mur­ray, D‑Washington, put for­ward Estudillo’s name and he was nom­i­nat­ed to the fed­er­al bench in April by Pres­i­dent Biden. On Sep­tem­ber 14th, he was con­firmed by a vote of 54–41.

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s nom­i­nees for the fed­er­al bench in the West­ern Dis­trict of Wash­ing­ton are well pre­pared and suit­ed to con­tin­ue the state’s rich his­to­ry of fed­er­al jurisprudence.