The American Bar Association and the FBI have finished vetting two of four candidates on a list of prospective nominees for the U.S. District Court in Atlanta, a former U.S. congressman told Georgia law students Friday.
Former U.S. Rep. Buddy Darden—who chaired Georgia Democrats’ judicial selection committee in 2009—said during a panel discussion Friday at the University of Georgia’s School of Law that a “logjam” that has stalled the appointment of federal judicial nominees in Georgia “has been broken.”
