NEW YORK: US President Joe Biden has cancelled the nomination of Vijay Shanker to be a judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in Washington.
The White House on Thursday informed the Senate that it was withdrawing his nomination, which was made by former President Donald Trump in June. The Senate did not take up Shankar’s nomination while Trump was in office and the Republican party had the majority.
His was one of 32 nominations, 17 of them for judges, that were held over from the Trump administration and pulled back by Biden.
When Trump nominated him, Shankar was the deputy chief of the Appellate Section of the Criminal Division at the Justice Department.
He investigated and prosecuted violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and related offenses and oversaw 30 lawyers who handle federal criminal appeals and draft Supreme Court briefs. He was simultaneously an adjunct associate professor at the Washington College of Law of the American University. (IANS)
