President Donald Trump’s nominees for federal judgeships and U.S. attorneys in Mississippi appear to have stalled in the Senate Judiciary Committee. 

The committee has yet to vote on Robert Chamberlin and James Maxwell, both nominated by Trump in August to fill open federal judge positions in Mississippi’s Northern District. Both are current justices on the Mississippi Supreme Court. 

The committee also has not taken up Trump’s nominations in early July of Scott Leary and Baxter Kruger, his choices for U.S. attorney for the Northern and Southern districts of Mississippi, respectively. Leary declined to comment. None of the other three nominees responded to a request for comment. 

The committee must vote to advance the nominees before the full U.S. Senate can consider them. The committee has met several times, including on Thursday, and has not voted on the nominees. 

The committee cancelled its Oct. 23 executive business meeting entirely when the four men were the only nominees the committee was to consider that day.

A spokesperson for Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley told Mississippi Today that the delay in advancing the Mississippi nominees out of committee is unrelated to the nominees themselves. 

“They’re caught up in a dispute between on-committee and off-committee senators,” the spokesperson said. “The chairman will plan to advance them when the issue is resolved.”

Most judicial nominees receive committee votes within a couple of weeks of their confirmation hearings, depending on the Senate schedule. The delays involving the Mississippi nominees are unusual because the committee has repeatedly delayed voting on them without explanation. 

Both of Mississippi’s U.S. senators, Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith, support the nominees’ confirmation and spoke in support of them at the confirmation hearing. Neither of them responded to a request for comment, and neither serves on the Judiciary Committee.