WASHINGTON – The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has chosen as a candidate for a federal judge position the lawyer Julie Rikelman, who represented the Mississippi reproductive services clinic in the case before the Supreme Court that ended with the revocation of the right to abortion.
The White House informed this Friday in a statement of the election of Rikelman as a candidate to preside over the Court of the First Circuit of the United States and now she will have to be confirmed by the Senate.
In its note, the White House explained that Rikelman has been since 2011 the Director of Litigation for the Center for Reproductive Rights, an organization that has represented and represents several clinics that offer abortion services before the Justice.
In recent months Rikelman defended the case of Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Mississippi clinic pi at the center of the Supreme Court ruling, which at the end of June eliminated legal protection for abortion in the US.
The clinic, which was the last of its kind left in that state, finally had to close due to the almost total ban on this procedure in the state.
Rikelman was in charge of laying out the arguments in favor of the Mississippi clinic before the judges of the highest judicial instance of USA
Before working for the Center for Reproductive Rights, she held various positions at NBC Universal, such as Vice President of Litigation, and was also in law firms in New York and Alaska .
The attorney was born in Ukraine and emigrated to the US with her family when she was girl, and received her doctorate “cum laude” from Harvard University Law School.
The court for which she has been chosen by Biden is an appellate court and is located in the state of Massachusetts.
This ad is pr It occurs after, according to US media such as The New York Times, Biden gave up his plans to nominate an anti-abortion lawyer supported by the leader of the Republican minority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, for a position as a federal judge in another court, for criticism from the Democrats.
According to the press, the chosen one was the jurist Chad Meredith, who as a judge defended the Kentucky anti-abortion law.