The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced seven judicial nominees of President Joe Biden with the help of Republican members, shelving other nominees that may lack bipartisan support amid Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) absence.

The advancement of seven nominees comes as Feinstein, whose vote Democrats require when judiciary Republicans unite against a nominee, has been away from Washington, D.C., recovering from shingles. Democrats attempted without success to replace Feinstein on the committee to keep a partisan advantage.

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“We wish our colleague, Sen. Feinstein, a speedy recovery and return,” Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) said before the votes. “We hope she’ll be back in the Senate very soon."

The panel voted to advance Mónica Ramírez Almadani and Wesley Hsu to be district court judges in California; Jeffrey Irvine Cummings and LaShonda Hunt to be district court judges in Illinois; Michael Farbiarz and Robert Kirsch to be district judges in New Jersey; and Orelia Eleta Merchant to be a district court judge in New York.

Although Democrats unanimously voted for all the nominees today, they received some support from Republicans, most notably Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a ranking member of the committee.

Durbin has sought to advance batches of judicial nominees together at one time, regardless of whether they have bipartisan support. He chose to shelve five nominees lacking GOP support, including Michael Delaney to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals.

Delaney, New Hampshire’s former deputy attorney general, has been criticized by Democratic senators concerned about his handling of a 2015 case in which Delaney requested that an underage sexual assault victim’s identity be unmasked if the suit went to trial.

Other nominees who were tabled include Amanda K. Brailsford, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Idaho, S. Kato Crews, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Colorado, and Molly R. Silfen, to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

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The judiciary panel is split between 11 Democrats and 10 Republicans. A tie vote in the committee renders a nominee a failure, and Feinstein's absence prevents sending judicial nominees to the full Senate for a vote unless they have some GOP help.

Notably, Feinstein voted on all of the nominees by proxy on Thursday. Members are allowed to vote on nominees by proxy so long as there aren't party-line votes.