{"id":33795,"date":"2023-11-20T01:01:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T06:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=33795"},"modified":"2023-11-20T17:39:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T22:39:41","slug":"audio-senate-committee-on-the-judiciary-takes-up-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2023\/11\/20\/audio-senate-committee-on-the-judiciary-takes-up-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"AUDIO: Senate Committee on the Judiciary takes up nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"The <a href=https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/>Senate Committee on the Judiciary<\/a> takes up three nominations, including that of Sara Hill, at a <a href=https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/committee-activity\/hearings\/11\/15\/2023\/nominations>hearing on November 15, 2023<\/a>.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nHill, a citizen of the <a href=https:\/\/www.cherokee.org\/>Cherokee Nation<\/a>, was <a href=https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/indianz\/sen-james-lankford-r-oklahoma?in=indianz\/sets\/senate-committee-on-the-judiciary-nomination-hearing-november-15-2023>introduced to the committee<\/a> by <a href=https:\/\/www.lankford.senate.gov>Sen. James Lankford<\/a> (R-Oklahoma). She also has been endorsed by <a href=https:\/\/www.mullin.senate.gov>Sen. Markwayne Mullin<\/a> (R-Oklahoma), a fellow Cherokee citizen.\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\/1669654833&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;inverse=false&#038;auto_play=false&#038;show_user=false\"><\/iframe>\r\n<P><\/p>\r\nAfter being sworn in, Hill provided a <a href=https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/indianz\/sara-e-hill?in=indianz\/sets\/senate-committee-on-the-judiciary-nomination-hearing-november-15-2023>brief opening statement<\/a> to the committee. She then responded to inquiries about her legal career during the <a href=https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/indianz\/q-a-521128474?in=indianz\/sets\/senate-committee-on-the-judiciary-nomination-hearing-november-15-2023>question and answer portion<\/a> of the hearing.\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\/1669654770&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;inverse=false&#038;auto_play=false&#038;show_user=false\"><\/iframe>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nHill has been nominated by President Joe Biden to <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2023\/10\/18\/cherokee-nation-attorney-makes-history-as-first-native-judicial-nominee-in-oklahoma\/>serve as a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma<a\/>. If confirmed, she would be the first Native woman and the first Native person to be a federal judge in her home state.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">Senate Committee on the Judiciary  Notice<\/div>\r\n<a href=https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/committee-activity\/hearings\/11\/15\/2023\/nominations>Nomination Hearing<\/a> (November 15, 2023)\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"h4-responsive\">Related Stories<\/div><div class=\"related-story\"><a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2023\/11\/20\/video-sara-hill-testifies-as-first-native-judicial-nominee-in-oklahoma\/\" title=\"VIDEO: Sara Hill testifies as first Native judicial nominee in Oklahoma\">VIDEO: Sara Hill testifies as first Native judicial nominee in Oklahoma<\/a> (November 20, 2023)<\/div><div class=\"related-story\"><a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2023\/10\/18\/cherokee-nation-attorney-makes-history-as-first-native-judicial-nominee-in-oklahoma\/\" title=\"Cherokee Nation attorney makes history as first Native judicial nominee in Oklahoma\">Cherokee Nation attorney makes history as first Native judicial nominee in Oklahoma<\/a> (October 18, 2023)<\/div>\r\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20\/SenateCommiteeontheJudiciaryNominationHearing.png\" alt=\"Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Nomination Hearing - November 15, 2023\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" class=\"invisible\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Senate Committee on the Judiciary takes up three nominations, including that of Sara Hill, at a hearing on November 15, 2023.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-audio.php","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[340,13,1,14],"tags":[3586,77,346,4371,1089,4270,72,296,4369,127,4370,1523,91],"class_list":["post-33795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-law","category-national","category-politics","tag-118th","tag-cherokee","tag-dc","tag-gregorio-sablan","tag-james-lankford","tag-john-russell","tag-judiciary","tag-markwayne-mullin","tag-northern-marianas","tag-oklahoma","tag-ramona-villagomez-manglona","tag-sara-hill","tag-senate","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20\/SenateCommiteeontheJudiciaryNominationHearing.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-8N5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33795","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=33795"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33808,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33795\/revisions\/33808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}