By Nate Raymond
(Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Friday nominated a lawyer who represented the Mississippi clinic on the coronary heart of the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s determination to overturn its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion rights determination to turn out to be a federal appeals courtroom decide.
Biden’s newest slate of 9 new judicial nominees included Julie Rikelman, an abortion rights lawyer with the Heart for Reproductive Rights whom the president picked to serve on the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court docket of Appeals.
The nomination, which Republicans are prone to oppose within the narrowly Democratic-controlled Senate,