Obama Nominated Her on September 24, 2013. That Paper Got No Senate Vote.

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Official portrait of President Barack Obama

Barack Obama, official portrait, 13 January 2009. Pete Souza. CC BY 3.0.

The White House announced two Massachusetts district nominations on September 24, 2013: Mark G. Mastroianni and Indira Talwani. The press release identified Talwani as a partner at Segal Roitman LLP in Boston, previously a partner (1996–1999) and associate (1989–1995) at the San Francisco firm now known as Altshuler Berzon LLP, and a 1988–1989 law clerk to Judge Stanley A. Weigel of the Northern District of California. It listed a J.D. from Boalt Hall (Berkeley) in 1988 and a B.A. cum laude from Harvard College in 1982.

The District of Massachusetts court biography and the Federal Judicial Center both tie the vacancy to Mark L. Wolf (FJC: Mark Lawrence Wolf). FJC records the September 24, 2013 nomination with no Senate vote, then a January 6, 2014 renomination. A nomination without a vote is not a confirmation.

Sources

The White House. “President Obama Nominates Two to Serve on the United States District Courts.” Sept. 24, 2013. obamawhitehouse.archives.gov

Federal Judicial Center. Talwani, Indira. Born 1960, Englewood, N.J.; first nomination Sept. 24, 2013, no Senate vote; renominated Jan. 6, 2014. www.fjc.gov

U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts. Judge Indira Talwani (court bio). www.mad.uscourts.gov

Opinion

The following is commentary by this site. It is not a finding of fact and not a legal conclusion.

Compiler take

First paper, no vote. They sent it again in January. The 94–0 came later. A press release is not a lifetime shield.