President Joe Biden on Feb. 7 announced four judicial nominees in California, New York, and South Dakota, and one nomination for U.S. marshal in Alabama as part of the administration’s latest effort to fill vacancies in Republican-led states and ensure the nation’s courts reflect “diversity.”
In a press release, the White House said the nominations are all “extraordinarily qualified, experienced, and devoted to the rule of law and our Constitution.”
Magistrate Judge Sanket Bulsara was nominated for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He has served in the district since 2017 after working as acting general counsel and deputy general counsel for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where he had been the deputy general counsel for Appellate Litigation, Adjudication, and Enforcement since 2015….
