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Following the 2016 primary election, the Sixth Circuit appointed Bloomekatz as amica on appeal to represent the district court's order that the polling locations within the counties of Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, and Warren be extended for one hour due to Interstate I-275 being closed for hours due to a fatal accident.
Bloomekatz represented Brandon Moore in his appeals from his sentence following a conviction by a jury on three counts of aggravated robbery, three counts of rape, three counts of complicity to rape, kidnapping, aggravated menacing, and multiple firearm specifications. Moore committed these crimes when he was 15 years old. Bloomekatz prevailed before the Ohio Supreme Court in challenging his sentence as a violation of the Eighth Amendment. Later, upon appointment by the Ohio Seventh District Court of Appeals, she appealed from a Mahoning County Common Pleas Court judgment requiring him to report annually for a period of 15 years after the trial court classified him as a sexually oriented offender because, as the prosecutor agreed, the wrong law was applied.
On May 25, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Bloomekatz to serve as a United States circuit judge for the Sixth Circuit. President Biden nominated Bloomekatz to the seat to be vacated by Judge R. Guy Cole Jr., who announced his intent to assume senior status upon confirmation of a successor. A hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 22, 2022. During her confirmation hearing, Republican senators questioned her over her support of gun control and the pro bono work that she was involved with during her tenure at Jones Day. On August 4, 2022, the committee failed to report her nomination by a 10–10–2 vote. On January 3, 2023, her nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate; she was renominated later the same day.
On February 9, 2023, her nomination was favorably reported by the committee by an 11–10 vote. On July 13, 2023, the Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 50–45 vote, with Senator Joe Manchin voting against the motion to invoke cloture on her nomination. On July 18, 2023, her nomination was confirmed by a 50–48 vote, with Senator Joe Manchin voting against her confirmation. She received her judicial commission on July 20, 2023.
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