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Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats said conservative donor Robin Arkley II has largely provided information they were seeking as part of their ethics probes of the U.S. Supreme Court, and as a result will leave him out of Thursday's planned vote to authorize subpoenas for conservative donor Harlan Crow and judicial activist Leonard Leo.
Laphonza Butler, president of Emily's List, the country's largest organization dedicated to electing Democratic women, has been appointed to complete the term of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., which runs until 2024. There are more procedural steps to fill Feinstein's committee assignments, such as if and when Butler will join the Judiciary panel.
Two U.S. attorney nominees for California and Mississippi will get a roll call vote at a time to be determined by Senate leadership, following a heated back-and-forth on the floor Wednesday between Democrats and Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, who's been holding up nominees for the U.S. Department of Justice over its alleged politicization.
New U.S. Department of Defense abortion policies, enacted in wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, were cleared of various potential procedural hurdles on Tuesday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, but this won't impact a Republican senator's hold on military promotions and nominations over the policies.