Sign and send the petition to your U.S. senators: Confirm Justice Maria Araujo Kahn to the Second Circuit Court.

[Take Back Our Courts]( A roundup of some of President Biden's most important judicial nominees that the U.S. Senate must confirm ASAP. The following nominees are all highly qualified, and the Senate is set to confirm the ones listed second and third TODAY. - [Sign and send the petition to your U.S. senators: Confirm Justice Maria Araujo Kahn to the Second Circuit Court.]( Justice Maria Araujo Kahn has served on the Connecticut Supreme Court since 2017 and previously sat on the state’s Superior Court and Appellate Court. Before her judicial career, Justice Kahn was a public defender and represented juveniles in the criminal justice system. She also worked in the State of Connecticut Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities, where she led civil rights litigation that resulted in crucial wins for deaf and hard of hearing people at hospitals, established due process rights for clients in state rehabilitation services, and more. - [Sign and send the petition to your U.S. senators: Confirm Jamal Whitehead to the Western District of Washington.]( Jamal Whitehead is an experienced trial attorney and has spent time both in public service and private practice. He is an expert in employment law and workers’ rights and has represented victims of workplace discrimination, retaliation, and other unfair labor practices in both individual and class action cases. Whitehead brings important lived experience to the bench as a Black person with a disability. He is the first disabled person President Biden has nominated to the federal judiciary and would join only a few current judges who also openly identify as disabled. - [Sign and send the petition to your U.S. senators: Confirm Araceli Martínez-Olguín to the Northern District of California.]( Araceli Martínez-Olguín is one of the country’s leading immigration attorneys and would bring a wealth of knowledge to the federal bench. She currently serves as a Supervising Attorney at the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), where she leads class action litigation protecting the rights of people who are seeking a pathway to citizenship under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. In her previous role at the ACLU, she successfully challenged discriminatory laws in Arizona and Nebraska that denied driver’s licenses solely due to immigration status. - [Bad news: Daily Kos revenue is down, and we might not be able to do all we do. Good news: You are a big part of the solution, and small donors have never let us down. Donate $5 TODAY.]( - [Sign and send the petition to your U.S. senators: Confirm Dale Ho to the Southern District of New York.]( Dale Ho has led the ACLU Voting Rights Project since 2013 and successfully litigated gerrymandering cases in Maryland and argued against discriminatory voting restrictions in North Carolina. Ho also successfully challenged the Trump administration’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the census before the Supreme Court. Ho is a second-generation Filipino and would be the only Asian American Pacific Islander man sitting on the Southern District of New York, one of the nation’s most populated and diverse regions. - [Sign and send the petition to your U.S. senators: Confirm Nancy Abudu to the Eleventh Circuit Court.]( Nancy Abudu is the Director of Strategic Litigation at the Southern Poverty Law Center and has a wealth of litigation experience advocating for rights of marginalized and oppressed people in the Eleventh Circuit’s jurisdiction. Abudu has helped restore the right to vote for people who have completed their felony sentences, challenged an unconstitutional poll tax that targeted low-income people, fought for disabled people’s access to the polls, sought to ensure health care for an incarcerated transgender individual, and challenged Florida’s anti-abortion 24-hour waiting period law, among so many other cases. - [Sign and send the petition to your U.S. senators: Confirm Natasha Merle to the Eastern District of New York.]( Natasha Merle currently serves as the deputy director of litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and previously worked as a capital defense attorney in Texas with Gulf Region Advocacy Center and a post-conviction public defender in Arizona. She has litigated complex civil rights cases, including leading voting rights lawsuits challenging Alabama’s curbside voting bans and restrictive voter ID law. - [Independent abortion clinics need our support more than ever after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Chip in $3 to help build foundations for abortion access across the country.]( - [Sign and send the petition to your U.S. senators: Confirm Julie Rikelman to the First Circuit Court.]( Julie Rikelman is one of the nation’s most lauded reproductive rights attorneys and currently serves as the litigation director for the Center for Reproductive Rights. In a time when abortion rights, access, and justice are under severe attack at the Supreme Court and in federal district and circuit courts across the country, Rikelman’s wealth of experience will be an incredible asset to the First Circuit. In addition to her work on abortion, Rikelman has also managed election, environmental, and constitutional law cases. - [Sign and send the petition to your U.S. senators: Confirm Rachel Bloomekatz to the Sixth Circuit Court.]( Rachel Bloomekatz founded Bloomekatz Law LLC in 2019 and has extensive experience advocating for voting rights, workers’ rights, consumers’ rights, constitutional rights, gun safety, and more. She has had many notable successes, including her challenge of the Ohio Secretary of State’s instruction to election officials that would suppress young voters in 2016, her pro bono representation of Brandon Moore who was unconstitutionally given a life sentence at 15 years old, and her representation of parents who challenged a school board policy that would have allowed teachers to carry firearms with extremely little training. - [Sign and send the petition to your U.S. senators: Confirm Nusrat Choudhury to the Eastern District of New York.]( Nusrat Choudhury currently serves as the Legal Director of the ACLU of Illinois. Previously, she served as the Deputy Director of the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program and as a staff attorney in the ACLU’s National Security Project. Choudhury also has deep litigation experience in federal courtrooms across the United States, including in the very court she is nominated to. She would be the first Muslim woman and the first Bangladeshi American to serve on any federal court. - [Sign and send the petition to your U.S. senators: Confirm Judge Hernán Vera to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.]( Judge Hernán Vera has served on the Los Angeles County Superior Court since 2020. He has been involved in significant litigation to protect human rights, including defending vulnerable patients who were treated without dignity after being inappropriately discharged from hospitals without necessary support, protecting people who spoke Mandarin against fraud and discriminatory consumer practices, and advocating for safety protections for farm workers. Thanks for all you do, The Daily Kos team Daily Kos Relies on Readers Like You We don't have billionaire backers like some right-wing media outlets. Half our revenue comes from readers like you, meaning we literally couldn't do this work without you. 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