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Wisconsin’s U.S. senators jointly announced Friday they have recommended four lawyers to President Donald Trump for possible appointment to a long-empty seat on the federal court in Milwaukee.
Republican Ron Johnson and Democrat Tammy Baldwin said the federal nominating commission decided on Joseph Bugni, Samuel Hall Jr., Brett Ludwig and Daniel Vaccaro.
An appointment and confirmation by the U.S. Senate would fill a spot on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin formerly filled by the late Rudolph Randa, who died more than three years ago.
Bugni works with Federal Public Defender Services of Wisconsin. Hall is the managing partner at Crivello Carlson law firm. Ludwig is a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge. Vaccaro is a partner at Michael Best & Friedrich.
Earlier this year, Trump’s own lawyers had bypassed the traditional bipartisan judicial nominating commission and found their own list of potential judges. Bugni and Hall were on that list, too.
Baldwin informed the White House she would not support any of those names, then, because they had not been a product of the traditional selection process.
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