{"id":7423,"date":"2021-01-05T00:11:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T07:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sanjhisoch.com\/english\/?p=7423"},"modified":"2021-01-05T00:11:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T07:11:05","slug":"donald-trump-nominates-indian-american-advocate-vijay-shanker-for-associate-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanjhisoch.com\/english\/donald-trump-nominates-indian-american-advocate-vijay-shanker-for-associate-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Nominates Indian-American Advocate Vijay Shanker for Associate Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 class=\"jsx-4089004531\"><strong>Donald Trump had first announced Vijay Shaker\u2019s nomination last June. Currently, he serves as Senior Litigation Counsel in the Department of Justice, Criminal Division, and as Deputy Chief of the Appellate Section.<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p id=\"0\" class=\"story_para_0\"><strong>Sanjhi Soch Beauro \u2013<\/strong>US President Donald Trump has nominated Indian-American advocate Vijay Shanker for the position of Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. In a communique to the Senate on Sunday, Trump said the nomination of Shanker is for a period of 15 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story_para_1\">If confirmed by the Senate, Shanker will replace John R Fisher, who has now retired. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals is the highest court for Washington DC. Trump had first announced Shaker\u2019s nomination last June. Currently, he serves as Senior Litigation Counsel in the Department of Justice, Criminal Division, and as Deputy Chief of the Appellate Section.<\/p>\n<p id=\"2\" class=\"story_para_2\">Before joining the Department of Justice in 2012, Shanker was in private practice with the Washington, DC, offices of Mayer Brown, LLC and Covington and Burling, LLP. Upon graduation from law school, Shanker served as a law clerk to Judge Chester J Straub on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.<\/p>\n<p id=\"3\" class=\"story_para_3\">Shanker completed his bachelors, cum laude, from Duke University and his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as a Notes Editor for the Virginia Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump had first announced Vijay Shaker\u2019s nomination last June. Currently, he serves as Senior Litigation Counsel in the Department of Justice, Criminal Division, and as Deputy Chief of the Appellate Section. Sanjhi Soch Beauro \u2013US President Donald Trump has nominated Indian-American advocate Vijay Shanker for the position of Associate Judge of the District of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sanjhisoch.com\/english\/donald-trump-nominates-indian-american-advocate-vijay-shanker-for-associate-judge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Donald Trump Nominates Indian-American Advocate Vijay Shanker for Associate Judge - Sanjhi Soch Worldwide Newspaper\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Donald Trump had first announced Vijay Shaker\u2019s nomination last June. 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