{"id":10982,"date":"2022-01-20T11:54:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T16:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=10982"},"modified":"2022-01-20T11:54:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T16:54:49","slug":"watch-sen-ossoff-delivers-remarks-as-historic-georgia-judicial-nominees-pass-senate-judiciary-committee-with-bipartisan-support","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/watch-sen-ossoff-delivers-remarks-as-historic-georgia-judicial-nominees-pass-senate-judiciary-committee-with-bipartisan-support\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Sen. Ossoff Delivers Remarks as Historic Georgia Judicial Nominees Pass Senate Judiciary Committee with Bipartisan Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sens. Ossoff & Warnock recommended Victoria Calvert & Sarah Geraghty to President Biden<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington, D.C.<\/strong> \u2013\u2013 This morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock\u2019s historic nominees for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victoria Marie Calvert and Sarah Elisabeth Geraghty\u2019s nominations received bipartisan support and will now receive a final vote on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sens. Ossoff and Warnock have been longtime advocates for a diverse judiciary. Calvert would become the second Black female judge for the Northern District of Georgia and the first former federal public defender to become a district court judge in Georgia. Geraghty would become the first civil rights attorney to become a district court judge in Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had the pleasure of speaking with several of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle about Ms. Calvert\u2019s nomination. As we\u2019ve discussed, she\u2019s highly qualified, committed to upholding the rule of law without fear or favor or ideology, and I would humbly ask my colleagues on both sides to vote to report her favorably to the floor,\u201d Sen. Ossoff said in the markup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnce again, [Sarah Geraghty is] an outstanding nominee for the Northern District of Georgia. Again, I\u2019ve spoken with several of my Republican colleagues about her high qualifications, her commitments to the rule of law, and her outstanding track record and humbly ask the Committee to move forward and report her nomination favorably,\u201d Sen. Ossoff continued in the markup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March, Sens. Ossoff and Warnock formed<\/a> a historic Federal Nominations Advisory Commission to review applicants for open Federal judicial, U.S. Attorney, and U.S. Marshall positions in Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WATCH: Sen. Ossoff\u2019s remarks here (part 1<\/a> & part 2<\/a>):<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sen. Ossoff in a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee markup<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Please find a transcript here:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEN. OSSOFF ON VICTORIA CALVERT<\/strong>: \u201cI’ve had the pleasure of speaking with several of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle about Ms. Calvert\u2019s nomination. As we’ve discussed, she\u2019s highly qualified, committed to upholding the rule of law without fear or favor or ideology, and I would humbly ask my colleagues on both sides to vote to report her favorably to the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEN. OSSOFF ON SARAH GERAGHTY<\/strong>: \u201cOnce again, an outstanding nominee for the Northern District of Georgia. Again, I\u2019ve spoken with several of my Republican colleagues about her high qualifications, her commitments to the rule of law, and her outstanding track record, and humbly ask the Committee to move forward and report her nomination favorably.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sens. Ossoff & Warnock recommended Victoria Calvert & Sarah Geraghty to President Biden Washington, D.C. \u2013\u2013 This morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock\u2019s historic nominees for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Victoria Marie Calvert and Sarah Elisabeth Geraghty\u2019s nominations received […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10982","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10988,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10982\/revisions\/10988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}