Joe Biden Is Confirming Judges Faster Than Decades Of Past Presidents

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President Joe Biden quietly hit a milestone on Thursday: With the help of Senate Democrats, he has confirmed more lifetime federal judges than any president has done in more than 50 years by this point in their first six months in office.

With the Senate’s latest confirmation of Candace Jackson-Akiwumi to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, Biden has confirmed a total of seven judges. These are specifically Article III judges, who hold lifetime appointments on federal district courts, appeals courts and on the Supreme Court.

Broken down, Biden has confirmed five district court judges and two appeals court judges so far.

By this point in their presidencies, Donald Trump had confirmed two lifetime federal judges (one of whom was a Supreme Court justice, Neil Gorsuch), Barack Obama had confirmed zero, George W. Bush had confirmed zero, Bill Clinton had confirmed zero, George H.W. Bush had confirmed four, Ronald Reagan had confirmed zero, and Jimmy Carter had confirmed four.

[SheltieLover]

1. Good!

[PortTack]

2. This is why we need sinema and manchin

[JohnSJ]

3. Yes, and some seem to lose sight of that

[nycbos]

5. Yes.

As annoying as they are judges are everything.

[Elessar Zappa]

6. Yup.

They make me angry but we need them for judges.

[tritsofme]

7. Exactly, if McConnell was in charge, the number would be zero.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. I agree

We need 50 senators plus the vote of VP Harris to get judges confirmed

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. To the Greatest Page with this important post! ♥

[Mike Nelson]

8. Yay!

[CBHagman]

9. Thank you for posting this.

I'd seen some coverage of Biden's efforts on the judiciary, but this provides additional context.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. This is an area that i try to follow

[betsuni]

10. Excellent.

[BlueLucy]

11. That's bad ass!

Democrats work when they are in charge.

[Hekate]

12. Thanks gods. There has been so much damage done by Mitch McConnell re the federal bench...

It’s good to get confirmation (so to speak) that Biden is not going to let himself be stalled and bullied by the GOP.

[demtenjeep]

15. he is a man with a mission

and no time to * around


and also suffers no fools

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. This makes me smile

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[lark]

17. Go Joe!

Doing good for America is what he does.

[lagomorph777]

18. He just quietly sneaks up on us with great accomplishments.

Very good news!

[Johnny2X2X]

19. The Federal Judiciary will have a decided Dem slant soon

Yes, Trump got a lot of judges seated for a 1 termer, but people have to realize Obama was a 2 termer.

There are currently 793 active Federal judges, Obama named 309 of them, Trump 229 Bush II 151 Clinton 70. Reagan and Bush I 27 combined and now Biden 7. So right now, it's 386 named by Dems and 407 named by Reps, but almost have the ones named by Reps aren't Trump. Bush named some awful judges, but for the most part they were still sane and knew the law.

By the end of Biden's 1st term that 386-407 score will be more like 500-350 in favor of Democrats. There's a whole mess of judges that held on because they didn't want Trump to name their replacement.

[ailsagirl]

20. Yes!!!!

[Catch2.2]

21. Great news! Now if only...

Justice Breyer would step down before the midterms so that Biden can nominate a much younger SCJ.

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22. Biden announces 5th wave of judicial nominees as Democrats aim to maintain quick pace of confirmatio

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President Joe Biden announced eight new federal judicial nominations on Wednesday as the White House seeks to maintain its rapid pace of nominations -- and confirmations -- to the federal bench.

The announcement, which marked Biden's fifth wave of judicial nominees, includes his intent to nominate two circuit court selections and comes as Democrats are pressing to quickly fill openings across the federal judiciary with their slim majority in the US Senate.

It's a central priority for Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat who has already shepherded seven judicial nominees through to confirmation, including two high-profile circuit court selections in recent weeks.

That number is notable for its historical context: It puts Biden on the fastest pace for judicial confirmations in a first presidential term in more than 50 years. The last president to have seven confirmations by this point was Richard Nixon in 1969, according to a White House official.