The Senate Judiciary Committee is preparing to vote as soon as this week on nominees for the 1st and 9th U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals.
Both courts — based in opposite sides of the country — are battlegrounds on energy and environment policy issues, including the administration’s initiatives.
First Circuit nominee Joshua Dunlap, a partner at the Maine law firm Pierce Atwood, would be the only active judge appointed by a Republican president.
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Eric Tung, a partner at the firm Jones Day, is the 9th Circuit nominee on this week’s markup agenda. He has represented public utilities before the California Public Utilities Commission.
