{"id":22015,"date":"2022-03-11T11:36:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=22015"},"modified":"2022-03-11T11:38:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:38:03","slug":"senate-committee-on-the-judiciary-executive-business-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/03\/11\/senate-committee-on-the-judiciary-executive-business-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Committee on the Judiciary Executive Business Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"Senate Committee on the Judiciary<BR>\r\nExecutive Business Meeting<BR>\r\nDATE: Thursday, March 10, 2022<BR>\r\nTIME: 09:00 AM Eastern<BR>\r\nLOCATION: Russell Senate Office Building Room 325<BR>\r\nPRESIDING: Chair, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois)\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe <a href=https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/>Senate Committee on the Judiciary<\/a> holds an <a href=https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/indianz\/senate-committee-on-the-judiciary-executive-business-meeting-march-10-2022>executive business meeting<\/a> to consider pending nominations on March 10, 2022.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nFollowing a discussion of other issues, the committee voted to approve the  <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/12\/15\/president-biden-nominates-another-native-woman-to-federal-bench\/>Sunshine Suzanne Sykes<\/a>, a citizen of the <a href=https:\/\/www.navajo-nsn.gov\/>Navajo Nation<\/a>, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California. The nomination can now be sent to the <a href=https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/>U.S. Senate<\/a> for full consideration.\r\n<P><\/p>\r\nIf confirmed, Sykes would be the first Native federal judge in California, which is home to the largest population of American Indians and Alaska Natives.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<strong>Thumbnail Photo: REUTERS\/Elizabeth Frantz<\/strong>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1230560407&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;inverse=false&#038;auto_play=false&#038;show_user=false\"><\/iframe>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">AGENDA<\/div>\r\nI. Nominees<BR>\r\nKenly Kiya Kato, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nJennifer Louise Rochon, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nSunshine Suzanne Sykes, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nSherilyn Peace Garnett, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nNina Morrison, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nTrina L. Thompson, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of California\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nPaul Monteiro, to be Director, Community Relations Service\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nTrina A. Higgins, to be United States Attorney for the District of Utah\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nJane E. Young, to be United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">Senate Committee on the Judiciary Notice<\/div><a href=https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/meetings\/03\/10\/2022\/executive-business-meeting>Executive Business Meeting<\/a> (March 10, 2022)\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"h4-responsive\">Related Stories<\/div>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/03\/07\/native-judge-awaits-movement-on-historic-nomination-to-federal-bench\/\" title=\"Native judge awaits movement on historic nomination to federal bench\">Native judge awaits movement on historic nomination to federal bench<\/a> (March 7, 2022)<BR>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/12\/17\/tribal-leaders-hail-historic-nomination-of-native-woman-to-federal-bench\/\" title=\"Tribal leaders hail historic nomination of Native woman to federal bench\">Tribal leaders hail historic nomination of Native woman to federal bench<\/a> (December 17, 2021)<BR>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/12\/15\/president-biden-nominates-another-native-woman-to-federal-bench\/\" title=\"President Biden nominates another Native woman to federal bench\">President Biden nominates another Native woman to federal bench<\/a> (December 15, 2021)\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/11\/senatecommitteeonthejudiciary.png\" alt=\"Senate Committee on the Judiciary Executive Business Meeting\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" class=\"invisible\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Senate Committee on the Judiciary holds an executive business meeting to consider pending nominations on March 10, 2022.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-audio.php","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[340,13,1,14],"tags":[869,38,72,24,91,2312],"class_list":["post-22015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-law","category-national","category-politics","tag-117th","tag-california","tag-judiciary","tag-navajo","tag-senate","tag-sunshine-suzanne-sykes","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-5J5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/11\/senatecommitteeonthejudiciary.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}