Law360: Judicial Noms Say Biden Won, But Critics Fault Their Caveats
This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on June 10, 2026.
Three district court nominees on Wednesday said President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, a departure from other judicial nominees in the second Trump administration, but court watchers on the left took issue with how they couched those statements.
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Similarly, Rachel Rossi, president of the Alliance for Justice said in a statement to Law360, “These nominees are clearly still trying to confirm their loyalty to Trump by not admitting their own basic understanding of what happened in the 2020 election or on January 6.”
She added, “It shouldn’t be too much for nominees to lifetime judgeships to acknowledge simple facts without deferring to ‘certification’ or ‘the law.'”