Joe Biden withdraws nomination of Indian-American advocate Vijay Shanker for Associate Judge

US President Joe Biden on Thursday withdrew the nomination of Indian-American advocate Vijay Shanker to be an Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
Shanker was renominated for this high judiciary place by former President Donald Trump on January 2, two months after he misplaced the presidential elections and just a bit over a fortnight earlier than Biden was sworn in because the forty sixth President of the United States on January 20.
The withdrawal notification was despatched to the Senate together with greater than 30 such names, largely judicial appointments introduced over the last months of the Trump administration.

Trump had first introduced his nomination final June. Currently he serves as Senior Litigation Counsel within the Department of Justice, Criminal Division, and as Deputy Chief of the Appellate Section.
Before becoming a member of the Department of Justice in 2012, Shanker was in personal follow with the Washington, DC, places of work of Mayer Brown, LLC and Covington & Burling, LLP.

Upon commencement from regulation college, Shanker served as a regulation clerk to Judge Chester J. Straub on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Shanker accomplished his bachelors, cum laude, from Duke University and his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law, the place he served as a Notes Editor for the Virginia Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.