Senators block Oklahoma City federal prosecutor from judge post
WASHINGTON — Faced with unrelenting — and mostly unexplained — opposition from Oklahoma 's senators, the U.S. Senate on Saturday sent back to the White House the nomination of Arvo Mikkanen to be a federal judge in Tulsa .
Mikkanen, a highly-praised prosecutor in Oklahoma City , never got a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee because of opposition from Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Muskogee , and J...
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