Washington – President Biden marks Wednesday He secured 235 judicial confirmations This figure is even higher than that of his predecessor, President-elect Donald Trump, during his single term in the White House.
Flanked by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, Mr Biden is delivering remarks from the White House highlighting the justices and judges he has nominated. Democrat-led Senate confirmed To the federal bench. The president's judicial record includes one appointment to the Supreme Court, 45 to the federal courts of appeals, 187 appointments to the U.S. district courts, and two to the U.S. Court of International Trade.
Mr Biden picks Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court was historicBecause she is the first black woman to sit on the highest court of the country.
“The record is clear: President Joseph Biden's nominees to the federal bench represent the best of the judiciary, the best of America,” said Durbin, an Illinois Democrat.
One in every four judges now on the federal bench was nominated by Mr. Biden, he said.
Since the beginning of his administration in 2021, the president, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee while in the upper chamber, has promised to diversify the federal bench by appointing judges. Different professional and personal backgroundsMr. Biden's judicial nominees included more than 45 public defenders and 25 civil rights lawyers, including Jackson.
In addition to selecting the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, Mr. Biden has nominated more Black women to federal courts of appeals than every previous presidential administration, according to the White House.
The 235 judicial confirmations are the largest number in a four-year term and more than since the late President Jimmy Carter was in office Trump's appointments to the federal bench One by one. Carter appointed no justices to the Supreme Court, but did select a record 262 judges to federal courts in 1978 after Congress passed legislation creating 35 new appeals court judgeships and 117 district court seats.
However, Trump nominated three justices to the Supreme Court, strengthening the 6-3 conservative majority and 54 judges on the federal appeals courts.
The 13 courts of appeals hear more than 40,000 cases annually and typically issue the final decision in a legal dispute, given that the Supreme Court hears fewer than 100 cases each year.