A U.S. Senate panel's next hearing on President Joe Biden's judicial nominees will feature six instead of the usual five candidates as a result of a tit-for-tat between Republicans and Democrats over a stalled and likely doomed Wisconsin court pick.
for Milwaukee County Circuit Judge William Pocan's nomination to the federal bench.
Johnson's failure to return a blue slip, which the Judiciary Committee uses to solicit views of home state senators of nominees, was announced the day before the panel was to hear from Pocan and essentially has doomed his nomination. That process begins with Wednesday's hearing, when a Democratic committee aide said Democrats would be "making up for a slot lost earlier this year when Sen. Johnson refused, at the last moment, to return his blue slip" on a Wisconsin nominee, she said in an email.
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