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Judges and Judiciary,
Government,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Jul. 14, 2022

GOP grills 9th Circuit nominee on election cases

Roopali H. Desai has represented Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in defending that state’s election laws.

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee grilled President Joe Biden’s nominee for a vacancy on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Roopali H. Desai, over how she would reconcile her advocacy work on hot-button political issues with her job as a judge.

Desai, a partner at Coopersmith Brockelman APC, where she has been a litigator since 2007, repeatedly assured senators that she would apply U.S. Supreme Court precedents regardless of...

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