President Biden has nominated Julie Rikelman, the lawyer who unsuccessfully defended abortion rights before the Supreme Court, to a federal appeals court.
Ms. Rikelman has a long record defending abortion rights. She worked for the pro-choice Center for Reproductive Rights since 2011.
Mr. Biden now wants her on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which includes the Districts of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico and Rhode Island.
She argued before the high court in December in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, where she represented the Mississippi clinic opposing the state’s 15-week ban on abortion.