"Deep concern and bewilderment.”
That’s how a group of prominent Latino legal and civil rights leaders in an open letter on Monday described their reaction to U.S. District Judge David Hurd’s decision to rescind his plan to take senior status the day after Jorge Alberto Rodriguez was nominated to fill his seat in the Northern District of New York.
“We urge you to reconsider your decision to effectively block the appointment of Mr. Rodriguez — a highly qualified judicial candidate who would also make history as the first Latino judge to sit on an N.D.N.Y. court,” Latinos for a Fair Judiciary wrote in a letter that the authors shared in advance with me.
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