Judges and Judiciary
Dec. 1, 2022
Senate Judiciary questions US judge nominees for California
San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Rita F. Lin and San Diego County Superior Court Judge James E. Simmons Jr. were questioned by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
A Republican senator grilled San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Rita F. Lin, one of President Joe Biden’s nominees for a Northern District of California judicial vacancy, about an article she wrote in college describing the Christian Coalition as “bigots.”
U.S. Sen. John N. Kennedy, R-La., asked Lin about the opinion piece she wrote in December 1998 as an undergraduate at Harvard University.
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