All posts tagged "edward dumont"
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Obama Federal Appeals Court nominee could be a gay first
President Barack Obama nominated two justices to the bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today, including one who could become...
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Vote Set for Thursday for Out Gay Judicial Nominee Fitzgerald
It was announced today that, following an agreement reached between the parties’ leaders, the Senate will be voting in the coming weeks on 14 of...
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Obama Withdraws DuMont Nomination, Selects Replacement Nominee Taranto
As reported earlier today at Metro Weekly, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit nominee Edward DuMont had requested that President Barack Obama withdraw...
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Edward DuMont, Out Gay Appeals Court Nominee, Asks Obama to Withdraw His Nomination
After waiting more than 18 months without even receiving a committee hearing on his nomination, Edward DuMont, a partner at the Wilmer Hale law firm,...
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Senate to Vote Today on Alison Nathan’s Nomination, Would Be Second Lesbian Federal Judge
[Photo: President Barack Obama greets departing Associate Counsel to the President Alison J. “Ali” Nathan, left, Meg Satterthwaite, and their twin sons Oliver and Nathan,...
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Judicial Symbolism
On July 18, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) spoke in soaring tones of the action the Senate was about to take on the judicial nomination of...
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Oetken Nomination Sent to Full Senate, As DuMont Nomination Remains in Limbo
Today, the Senate Judicary Committee moved forward the nomination of J. Paul Oetken, who was nominated for a judgeship in the Southern District of New...
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Oetken, Out Gay Nominee, “Unanimously Qualified” for N.Y. Federal Judgeship, ABA Panel Says
J. Paul Oetken, the out gay New York attorney who was nominated by President Barack Obama for a federal judicial appointment in late January, told...
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Obama Renominates DuMont, Would Be First Gay Federal Appeals Judge
Today, President Barack Obama sent the name of Edward C. DuMont, a District resident, to the Senate for nomination to be a judge on the...
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Feldblum Approved for EEOC, DuMont Judicial Nomination in Question
On the Senate’s last day in session, on Dec. 22, out lesbian Chai Feldblum was confirmed by the Senate for her position as a commissioner...
