President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced four new nominees to serve as federal judges across four states, including a Black federal prosecutor nominated to be a judge in New Jersey and a Muslim American for a seat on Oregon’s federal bench, adding to the record number of women and people of color Biden has nominated. Read more about the nominees.
Biden has announced 188 nominees to the federal bench since taking office in January 2021. The Senate has confirmed 140 of them. Of those nominees, 62% are people of color and 62% are women.
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As U.S. retailers contemplate whether to keep their doors open in hard-hit city neighborhoods, a ruling last week by a New York federal judge gives them another reason for concern. Alison Frankel explains why a Manhattan judge’s decision to deny summary judgment to Starbucks in a case brought by a customer who was assaulted by a fellow patron at a Starbucks in Union Square in 2019 could be a real threat for other companies that fail to respond to low-level violence in their stores.
Check out other recent pieces from all our columnists: Alison Frankel, Jenna Greene and Hassan Kanu
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