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Senate confirms slate of judges under joint order, unanimously approves HJR 6005
Summary
During a special session reconvened in Richmond, the Virginia Senate took up House Joint Resolution 6005 and approved a slate of judicial nominees — including a nominee to the Supreme Court — by recorded votes, with the Senate voting 40-0 in favor of the listed nominees.
The Virginia Senate, meeting in special session in Richmond, approved House Joint Resolution 6005 and then recorded votes to elect the judicial nominees named in Senate resolutions submitted under that joint order.
Under the joint order, the Senate first moved to take up HJR 6005 for immediate consideration. The rules were suspended and the resolution taken up, and the body then recorded votes for nominees to the Supreme Court of Virginia, the Court of Appeals of Virginia, multiple general district courts and juvenile and domestic relations district courts.
Senate leadership announced that the number of votes required to elect in the House of Delegates is 51 and in the Senate is 21, after the committee to count the vote reported those thresholds to the chamber. The clerk and appointed senators then oversaw roll-call votes for each nominee.
For the nominees named by Senate resolutions 6 87, 6 88, 6 89 and 6 90, the Senate recorded unanimous roll-call tallies. The clerk closed the roll on each vote with the result recorded as "Ayes 40, No 0," and the chair then declared the named nominees duly elected for the terms specified in the resolutions.
The actions taken under HJR 6005 were procedural and binding under the joint order; the Senate directed its committee members to notify the House of Delegates of the Senate's actions after the vote counts were finalized.
The votes concluded the joint-order judicial business during the special session and the Senate returned to other calendar business following the announcements and formalities.
Ending: The Senate announced the action would be communicated to the House of Delegates and recessed its special business to move on to remaining agenda items for the reconvened session.
