A Senate panel is split on whether to endorse U.S. Magistrate Judge Kenly Kiya Kato’s nomination to become the first Japanese-American woman to serve as a federal district court judge in the Central District of California. - NBCAsianAmerica
A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday voted in favor of advancing five of President Joe Biden’s district court picks but deadlocked on one who had faced Republican questions about her views on racial discrimination and affirmative action.
The panel’s divided vote means the Senate must first vote to discharge her nomination from the committee before any consideration of her nomination by the full Senate can begin. Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, said the book review conveyed that “to be sufficiently woke, an Asian American must support policies that discriminate against Asian Americans.”alleging it discriminated against Asian-American undergraduate applicants through race-conscious admissions processes aimed at boosting diversity.Kato declined to discuss the case, a challenge to affirmative action on college campuses, noting it is pending.
Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii called those questions “uncalled for” while noting Kato’s parents were detained as children in internment camps with other Japanese Americans during World War II.The panel, meanwhile, voted 12-10 to advance Nina Morrison, awhose career has focused on exonerating people, who is nominated to be a federal judge in Brooklyn.
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