Biden and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) have led a speedy push to confirm diverse, liberal nominees in the closely divided Senate after Republicans notched several momentous legal victories enabled by their conservative judicial picks, including decisions on abortion and guns.
Biden’s pace of judicial confirmations outruns the number of judges confirmed under former Presidents Trump and Obama at this point in their administrations. Senate Republicans confirmed Trump’s 100th nominee in May 2019, outpacing the Obama administration but taking about two-and-a-half months longer than Biden.
...Biden has now secured confirmations for 30 appeals court judges and 69 district court judges. He has also successfully nominated one associate justice — Ketanji Brown Jackson — to the Supreme Court...more
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