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Anonymous ID: 069d7c May 20, 2019, 2:12 p.m. No.6545157   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5211

On July 31, 2014, President Obama nominated Mehta to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, to the seat vacated by Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle, who took senior status on June 3, 2014.[4] He received a hearing before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on September 17, 2014.[5] On November 20, 2014 his nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote.[6] On Saturday, December 13, 2014 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed a motion to invoke cloture on the nomination. On December 16, 2014, Reid withdrew his cloture motion on Mehta's nomination, and the Senate proceeded to vote to confirm Mehta in a voice vote. He received his federal judicial commission on December 19, 2014.[3]