The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nomination of Thomas Griffith to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit by a vote of 14-4. Four Dems supported the nomination — Schumer, Kohl, Feinstein, and Durbin — making a filibuster extremely unlikely. Griffith was nominated to the D.C. Circuit after Miguel Estrada withdrew in the face of a Democratic filibuster.