The Senate Judiciary Committee will reconsider several of President Biden‘s judicial nominees that Ted Cruz, R-Texas., said last year were “extremists, partisans and radicals” when they were nominated in the last Congress but failed to move.
The Senate will convene this week for the legislative work of the 118th Congress, and the Democrats’ slim 51-49 majority is expected to make it much easier to confirm Biden’s nominees than it was last year in the 50-50 Senate. In the last Congress, Republicans protested eight of these nominees by citing their records of approving lenient sentences for violent criminals and supporting left-wing causes.
Dale Ho has been renominated to be a judge on New York’s Southern District Court, and in a hearing last year, Cruz said Biden has “made a pattern of nominating extremists, partisans and radicals” for administrative and judicial positions. Cruz said Ho’s record “reflects that same pattern of finding someone who has been an extreme partisan” and “a…
