WASHINGTON - Days after the confirmation hearing of U.S. District Judge Daniel Traynor, Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) told Spectator on June 17 that he will not vote to confirm Traynor to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, CC ’16, defeated five-term incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) in the race for New York’s 13th congressional district Tuesday evening, winning by 3.5 points in one of the night’s most closely watched races.

WASHINGTON - Sens. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) held a Wednesday press conference on Capitol Hill alongside Mohsen Mahdawi, GS ’25, SIPA ’27, to introduce the Land of the Free Act—a bill calling for the repeal of a contentious provision of a 1950s immigration law.

At the first University Senate plenary since the April 23 release of the senate review report, Jeanine D’Armiento, chair of the senate’s executive committee, criticized the report’s recommendations. She argued in her May 8 remarks that the review produced sweeping conclusions not grounded in concrete data or evidence.

Former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz emphasized the need for European unity during his Wednesday visit to Columbia for a World Leaders Forum event titled “Can Europe Act? Power and Sovereignty in a Fragmenting World.”