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The President is announcing fourteen judicial nominees, including ten new candidates for the federal bench. All of the nominees are extraordinarily qualified, experienced, and devoted to the rule of law and our Constitution.
These choices also continue to fulfill the President’s promise to ensure that the nation’s courts reflect the diversity that is one of our greatest assets as a country — both in terms of personal and professional backgrounds.
Washington, DC — Today, Latinos for a Fair Judiciary (LFJ), a coalition of Latino leaders from prominent civic organizations and across the legal and nonprofit communities, announced its support of President Joe Biden’s inclusion of three Latinos — Justice Gabriel Sanchez, David Herrera Urias, and Judge Hernán Vera — in his latest slate of nominations to federal judicial seats. LFJ urges the U.S. Senate to swiftly confirm these highly qualified nominees in order to increase Latino representation within the federal judiciary to match the nation’s new demographic reality.
Read MoreWashington, DC- Today, the Supreme Court of the United States turned back the clock on voting rights in American and upheld the disenfranchisement of millions of citizens with its 6-3 decision to uphold Arizona’s discriminatory election provisions. In response, Latinos for a Fair Judiciary provided the following statement on today’s ruling and its impact on Latino voters in the United States.
Read MoreAs he continues to move at an historic pace with respect to judicial nominees, the President is announcing eight new candidates for the federal bench and one new candidate for District of Columbia courts, all of whom are extraordinarily qualified, experienced, and devoted to the rule of law and our Constitution.
Read MoreNational Latino leaders are pushing the Senate to quickly confirm voting rights expert Myrna Pérez as a justice for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. If confirmed, she would be the only Latina on the bench of that federal appeals court and the first since Sonia Sotomayor moved from it to the U.S. Supreme Court.
President Joe Biden nominated Perez last week for the appeals court, which serves New York, Connecticut and Vermont.
Read MoreWashington, DC- Representing a coalition of prominent Latino civic organizations from across the legal and nonprofit communities, Latinos for a Fair Judiciary (LFJ) expressed its strong support for the nomination of Myrna Pérez to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and urges the U.S. Senate to quickly consider and approve her confirmation.
Read MoreThe U.S. Senate confirmed Denver lawyer Regina Rodriguez for a federal judgeship Tuesday, five years after she was first nominated for the job.
The Senate voted 72-28 on Rodriguez’s nomination, with all Democrats and 22 Republicans voting in favor.
Read MoreWashington D.C. – Líderes del Congreso y autoridades de la isla aplaudieron hoy la decisión del presidente Joe Biden de nombrar al juez puertorriqueño Gustavo Gelpí para llenar la vacante que surgió en el Primer Circuito de Apelaciones federales tras la muerte de Juan Torruella.
Read MoreWashington, DC- Latinos for a Fair Judiciary condemns today’s rushed and illegitimate Senate vote to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Today’s vote was the culmination of Republican-led court-packing strategy that began with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s blockade of Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court in 2016, and went into overdrive during the current administration. This ill-gotten vote occurred after hastily arranged hearings and insufficient time for the Senate and the American public to review the nominee’s record, and took place with less than eight days until Election Day and after 60 million Americans have already cast their ballots.
Read MoreWashington, DC- In a letter sent to Senators on Wednesday on behalf of more than a dozen national Latino civil rights and advocacy organizations, Latinos for a Fair Judiciary (LFJ) announced it opposes the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court of the United States. Representing the interests of millions of Latinos and Latinas from across the nation, the leaders of LFJ highlight the urgency to push back on Republican efforts to pack the Court with a far right ideology that would hold for a generation.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett declined to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee whether she thought that separating migrant children from their parents was wrong. “That’s a matter of hot political debate in which I can’t express a view or be drawn into as a judge,” the mother of seven kids said in response to a question from Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.). When Booker rephrased his question, Barrett again demurred, saying she couldn’t “be drawn into a debate about the administration’s immigration policy.”
Read MoreIn recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has increasingly considered issues crucial to the Latino community—from health care access to voting rights to immigrant justice, like keeping DREAMers in this country. The Supreme Court matters to all of us and now Senate Republicans are rushing through the President’s nominee at the fastest pace in half a century.
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