US Senate confirms Lucy Koh to the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, making Koh the first Korean-American woman to serve on a federal appeals court. - NBCAsianAmerica
Circuit Court of Appeals, elevating the prominent judge despite Republican objections to a decision she wrote allowing California to restrict religious gatherings during the pandemic.
Koh, 53, is one of President Joe Biden’s 16 appellate nominees to date and one of four picks for the 9th Circuit, which hears appeals from Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday said by week’s end, the Senate will have confirmed 11 of Biden’s appellate nominees and 20 district court picks, a majority of whom are women and more than half of whom are people of color.Schumer pledged to hold a vote this week on another 9th Circuit pick, Jennifer Sung, a Oregon state labor board member who has faced tough Republican opposition. Biden’s other two 9th Circuit nominees, Gabriel Sanchez and Holly Thomas, are pending.
Before joining the federal bench, she had been a state court judge in California and a partner at McDermott Will & Emery.the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this year, Republicans zeroed in on a ruling she issued in February that said California could ban small religious gatherings in homes in order to stop the spread of COVID-19.
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