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The confirmations continue! We are ecstatic that Leader Schumer also prioritized the confirmation this week of Nancy Abudu [[link removed]] (11th Cir., Ga.), a truly phenomenal nominee. One of our nation’s leading civil rights appellate attorneys, Ms. Abudu has spent her career defending our democracy and protecting the constitutional rights of Americans of all races, religions, and political affiliations. Her nomination had been pending for over 17 months. She is now the first Black woman to ever serve on the 11th Circuit. She is a movement lawyer [[link removed]] who is now a movement judge. 

On Monday, Bradley Garcia [[link removed]] was confirmed as the first Latino to serve on the D.C. Circuit Court. We are excited by this progress and will continue to push the White House to fill every one of the 57 vacancies across the country without nominees.
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The Good News
The Senate has been busy with nominations the past couple weeks. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) returned to Capitol Hill this week, allowing the Senate Judiciary Committee to make great strides in moving nominees through the confirmation process at last. Six nominees were voted out of committee, including Darrel Papillion [[link removed]] (E.D. La.), Brendan Hurson [[link removed]] (D. Md.), Charnelle Bjelkengren [[link removed]] (E.D. Wash.), and Kato Crews [[link removed]] (D. Colo.).

Additionally, on May 17, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a nominations hearing for Judge Ana de Alba [[link removed]] (9th Cir., Ca.) and Judge Irma Carillo Ramírez [[link removed]] (5th Cir., Tex.). If confirmed, Judge Ramírez will be the first Latina on the Fifth Circuit and its only active Latino judge.

What's Next

Evidence [[link removed]] of Justice Clarence Thomas’s corruption continues to mount. These revelations—from gifts, to luxury trips, to a nephew’s tuition, to the still-expanding understanding of the breadth and depth of Thomas’s ethics disclosure violations—cement the now-unavoidable conclusion that Justice Thomas’s presence on the Court is more than an embarrassment—it’s a threat to the rule of law. AFJ and a growing coalition of partners as well as officials are calling on Justice Thomas to resign. Only Thomas’s resignation will restore Americans’ record-low faith that the Court can be trusted to fairly administer the law. Now it’s time for Senate Democrats to turn up and join our call: Thomas, resign!
We applaud the efforts of Senator Whitehouse, who led a hearing [[link removed]] on Wednesday of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights. The subcommittee reviewed the judicial ethics processes at the U.S. Judicial Conference, the national administrative governing and policymaking body for the federal court system.

Don’t miss May 31 when AFJ will be hosting a conversation between NARAL President Mini Timmaraju and AFJ President Rakim Brooks as part of our Holding Court series, which features interviews and dialogues featuring leading attorneys, progressive advocates, politicians, and thought leaders on current events and today’s social justice issues. The conversation with Mini Timmaraju will take place on Twitter Spaces [[link removed]] . You don’t need a Twitter account to attend, but Twitter users can set a reminder to attend here [[link removed]] .

You can watch all previous Holding Court conversations on our website [[link removed]] . We recently hosted a similar conversation with Dahlia Lithwick [[link removed]] about her new book Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America to great success.
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