A nomination to the District of Columbia Superior Court has stretched into the longest-running judicial fight of the Obama presidency, held back by what one Republican senator calls the nominee’s “history of very leftist activism.”
Marisa Demeo won the backing of a U.S. Senate committee in May 2009 for a slot on Washington’s local trial bench, and she’s been waiting for a confirmation vote ever since. The eight-month lag is longer than the wait for any other judicial nominee of President Barack Obama, including the president’s most controversial picks for federal appellate courts.
