President Expected to Re-Nominate Chen, Others

President Barack Obama plans to renominate Magistrate Judge Edward Chen and five others whose names the Senate returned to the White House last month, a White House official said today, according to a post on the blog of LegalTimes.

The two district court nominees are Louis Butler Jr., a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, for the Western District of Wisconsin and Edward Chen, a U.S. magistrate judge, for the Northern District of California.

Obama has not issued a statement about renominating the six. The official who spoke about the administration’s plans did so on the condition of anonymity.