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The remarkable pace with which President Joe Biden has sought to remake the federal bench has been put into jeopardy by dual threats: Democratic Senate absences and a Senate rule that gives Republicans the ability to veto district court nominees for courts in their home states.
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A Republican U.S. senator from Mississippi said Tuesday that she would not support a judicial nominee from her home state, likely derailing the nomination of a local prosecutor tapped by President Joe Biden for a spot on the federal bench.