Bush Selects N.Y. Judges For Federal Bench

President Bush is keeping alive the candidacies of three New Yorkers for federal judgeships.

On Tuesday, Mr. Bush nominated the three for a second year in a row. Last year, the Senate did not act on any of their nominations.

One of the nominees, Mary Donohue, was opposed last year by Senator Schumer, who is on the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to an anonymously sourced report in the New York Post.

Ms. Donohue, currently a candidate for a U.S. district court judgeship in Albany, was lieutenant governor under Governor Pataki.

Mr. Bush also resubmitted the name of the current U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, Roslynn Mauskopf, for a judgeship at the U.S. district court in Brooklyn. Prior to becoming U.S. attorney, Ms. Mauskopf was state inspector general under Mr. Pataki. Also, a vice dean at Columbia University School of Law, Debra Ann Livingston, is a candidate for a vacancy on the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, which sits in Manhattan. Ms. Livingston, whom Mr. Bush first nominated last year, is also a former federal prosecutor.