Controversial Judicial Pick to Withdraw Nomination

“Former New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney’s nomination to serve on the First US Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston is expected to be withdrawn soon because he lacks the votes to advance out of the Senate Judiciary Committee,” the Boston Globe reports.

“Three Democrats on the committee — Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Cory Booker of New Jersey, and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii — have indicated publicly they had concerns about Delaney’s nomination.”

“Delaney’s nomination has been criticized because of his role representing St. Paul’s School in a civil suit resulting from the 2014 sexual assault of Chessy Prout, then 15, by an 18-year-old senior, Owen Labrie, at the elite Concord, N.H., boarding school.”