Senator Schmitt Joins Senator Vance, Senate Colleagues on Sweeping Hold of Biden Judicial Nominees

WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Eric Schmitt joined Senator JD Vance (R-OH) as well as Senators Mike Lee (R-UT), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Roger Marshall (R-KS), and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) on a joint statement expressing a sweeping hold policy in response to the Biden Administration flagrant use of lawfare against former President Donald Trump: 

“The Biden Administration and Democrats have engaged in unprecedented lawfare and weaponized our judicial system. My colleagues and I are fighting back. The continued political prosecutions of President Trump shows just how low Biden and Democrats are willing to go — preventing Democrats from establishing the precedent of prosecuting their opponents starts with us,” said Senator Eric Schmitt.

BACKGROUND:

The Senator’s hold policy currently applies to the following nominees. This list could grow if the Biden administration announces further nominations. 

• Johnny C. Gogo, nominated to be a United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands
• April M. Perry, nominated to be a United States. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois
• Joshua S. Levy, nominated to be a United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts
• Rebecca C. Lutzko, nominated to be a United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio
• Joseph Russell Palmore, nominated to be an Associate Judge for the DC Court of Appeals
• Carmen G. Iguina Gonzalez, nominated to be an Associate Judge for the DC Court of Appeals
• John Cuong Truong, nominated to be an Associate Judge for the DC Superior Court
• Rahkel Bouchet, nominated to be an Associate Judge for the DC Superior Court
• Ray D. McKenzie, nominated to be an Associate Judge for the DC Superior Court
• Erin Camille Johnston, nominated to be an Associate Judge for the DC Superior Court
• Sherri Malloy Beatty-Arthur, nominated to be an Associate Judge for the DC Superior Court
• Anne Hwang, nominated to be a Judge for the Central District of California
• Cynthia Valenzuela Dixon, nominated to be a Judge for the Central District of California
• Michelle Williams Court, nominated to be a Judge for the Central District of California
• Stacey D. Neumann, nominated to be a Judge for the District of Maine
• Adam B. Abelson, nominated to be a Judge for the District of Maryland
• Danna R. Jackson, nominated to be a Judge for the District of Montana
• Embry J. Kidd, nominated to be a Judge for the Eleventh Circuit
• Joseph Francis Saporito, Jr., nominated to be a Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
• Rebecca Suzanne Kanter, nominated to be a Judge for the Southern District of California
• Detra Shaw-Wilder, nominated to be a Judge for the Southern District of Florida
• Sarah Netburn, nominated to be a Judge for the Southern District of New York
• Meredith A. Vacca, nominated to be a Judge for the Western District of New York
• Julia M. Lipez, nominated to be a Judge for the First Circuit
• Mary Kay Lanthier, nominated to be a Judge for the District of Vermont
• Catherine Henry, nominated to be a Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• Karla M. Campbell, nominated to be a Judge for the Sixth Circuit
• Charlie Crist, nominated to be the United States’ Representative to the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization
• Corey Anne Tellez, nominated to be Deputy Under Secretary for the Department of the Treasury
• Andrew William Plitt, nominated to be an Assistant Administrator of the Agency for International Development
• James J. Blanchard, nominated to be a Member of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
• Margaret L. Taylor, nominated to be a Legal Advisor for the Department of State
• Jay T. Snyder, nominated to be a Member of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
• John Gleeson, nominated to be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission
• Christopher H. Schroeder, nominated to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation
• Leslie N. Bluhm, nominated to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service
• Jeffrey R. Gural, nominated to be Chairman of the Public Buildings Reform Board
• Martin Joseph Walsh, nominated to be Governor of the United States Postal Service
• John Bradford Wiegmann, nominated for General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
• Barbara Lee, nominated to be Representative to the General Assembly of the United Nations
• Vivek Hallegere Murthy, nominated to be Representative of the United States on the Board of the World Health Organization
• Janet Louise Yellen, nominated to be Governor of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Governor of the Inter-American Development Bank, Governor of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Governor of the International Monetary Fund.

Read the letter here.