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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 26, 2021

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday unanimously approved Lisa Monaco, the Biden administration’s nominee for deputy attorney general nominee, by voice vote without debate. If confirmed by the full Senate she will serve as the second ranking official at the Department of Justice. The committee then turned its attention to the nomination of Vanita Gupta as associate attorney general, the third ranking official at the department. After a “bitterly divided” debate, the committee forwarded the nomination to the full Senate on a tied vote, Reuters reports.