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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 5, 2022

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked along party lines yesterday on President Joe Biden's nomination of attorney Rachel Bloomekatz to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, Courthouse News reports. Bloomekatz is a solo practitioner and adjunct professor at Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law. During her confirmation hearing, Republicans on the committee questioned her work on gun control issues and representation of a 15-year-old who was sentenced to more than 100 years for robbery, kidnapping and rape. The nomination is still expected to advance out of the committee, but the tie vote will delay the confirmation process, requiring the Senate to hold an extra vote, the news source explains.