Senate Judiciary Committee Reports Out Five Nominees

This morning the Senate Judiciary Committee reported out five nominees in a unanimous, en banc voice vote. The nominees advanced to the floor were: Christopher Droney, nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; Robert D. Mariani, nominee to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania; Cathy Bissoon and Mark R. Hornak, nominees to the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania; and Robert N. Scola, Jr., nominee to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The committee took no action on the nomination of Steve Six to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

There are now 115 current and future vacancies in the federal judiciary, more than 1 in 7 seats