It's beyond disgraceful that Vance, a Trump acolyte, blocked Perry from becoming the first woman in the high-profile job of U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
WASHINGTON — The woman nominated for Chicago’s top federal prosecutor position is being named a federal judge after she was not confirmed in the Senate, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. April Perry was nominated by the Biden administration last summer following John Lausch’s departure as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District in March 2023. Lausch […]
The White House on Wednesday will officially announce Biden’s intention to nominate April Perry to be a U.S. District Court judge. For months, the effort to confirm Perry as Chicago's new U.S. Attorney was stalled by Sen. J.D. Vance, a Republican from Ohio.
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As a five-time convicted felon, Glen Prince was facing a mandatory minimum 15 years behind bars when he was charged in federal court with being a felon in possession of a handgun stemming from an armed robbery on CTA train in 2021. Instead, Prince’s case was tossed out earlier this month by a federal judge who ruled the statute barring felons from possessing handguns is unconstitutional in .