Biden judicial nominee, under fire for school sexual assault case, withdraws after Democrats balk

Embattled judicial nominee Michael Delaney has asked President Joe Biden to withdraw his nomination for a prestigious appeals court, according to a letter obtained by CNN.

Delaney, a former attorney general of New Hampshire, had attracted the opposition of Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans and skepticism of the committee’s Democrats for a case where he represented an elite boarding school that was sued by a student who was sexually assaulted on its campus.