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Judges and Judiciary

Mar. 1, 2023

Immigration lawyer confirmed as Northern District judge

Araceli Martinez-Olguin’s nomination was approved 49-48, with four senators absent. All Democrats present voted for her; no Republican did. Vice President Kamala Harris cast a tiebreaking vote.

Araceli Martinez-Olguin, supervising attorney of the National Immigration Law Center and a former ACLU staff attorney, was confirmed as a district court judge for San Francisco by the U.S. Senate on a sharply partisan vote Tuesday.

It took a tiebreaking vote by Vice President Kamala Harris to overcome stiff Republican resistance amid the absences of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, and U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-PA.

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