{"id":4703,"date":"2024-05-22T21:12:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T21:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/22\/angela-martinez-confirmed-as-u-s-judge-in-major-milestone-for-biden\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T21:12:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T21:12:55","slug":"angela-martinez-confirmed-as-u-s-judge-in-major-milestone-for-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/22\/angela-martinez-confirmed-as-u-s-judge-in-major-milestone-for-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Martinez confirmed as U.S. judge in major milestone for Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">The Senate confirmed President Biden\u2019s 200th judicial nominee Wednesday, a significant milestone for Democratic and White House efforts to remake a federal court system that grew increasingly conservative under President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">Magistrate Judge Angela Martinez, who previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney, was approved to become a federal judge in the District of Arizona in a 66-28 vote, with 45 Democrats, three independents and 18 Republicans voting in favor. She brings additional ethnic and gender diversity to a cohort of judges nominated by Biden that includes more women, people of color and LGBTQ individuals  than those nominated by any other president in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on The Washington Post<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate confirmed President Biden\u2019s 200th judicial nominee Wednesday, a significant milestone for Democratic and White House efforts to remake a federal court system that grew increasingly conservative under President Donald Trump. Magistrate Judge Angela Martinez, who previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney, was approved to become a federal judge in the District of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}