U.S. Senate Panel OKs Judicial Nominees
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday unanimously approved two Los Angeles attorneys to serve as federal district judges.
The committee’s move makes it overwhelmingly likely that attorneys Percy Anderson and Jack Walter, who were nominated by President Bush in January, will be approved by the full Senate.
Anderson and Walter are both former federal prosecutors. They are the first nominees to emerge from California’s new bipartisan Judicial Advisory Committee.
In addition, the Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Santa Monica Superior Court Judge Deborah Yang to be U.S. attorney for the central district of California based in L.A.
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