US Senate Democrats rush to confirm judges before Trump takes office
Category: Biden judges
Update on Biden judicial nominees
Just this morning, Sen. McConnell tried to discredit our judicial nominees on the Senate floor.
— Senate Judiciary Committee (@JudiciaryDems) June 4, 2024
Important stats to remember when Republicans do this:
10 – The # of Trump nominees rated NOT QUALIFIED by the ABA for the federal bench.
0 – The # of Biden nominees rated the same.
UPDATED TALLY
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 10, 2024
Biden, today: 193 judges confirmed
Trump, four years ago today: 193 judges confirmed
Today the Senate confirmed Joe Biden’s 181st federal judge.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) February 29, 2024
—1 Supreme Court justice
—40 appeals court judges
—138 district court judges
—2 international trade court judges
Will be one of the most consequential pieces of Biden’s legacy.
Dems’ goal: Break Trump’s tally of 234.
BREAKING: The Senate just confirmed President Biden’s 174th lifetime judge.
— Senate Judiciary Committee (@JudiciaryDems) January 31, 2024
One in every five lifetime judges has now been appointed by President Biden.
Republicans don’t follow the blue slip tradition – get rid of it
In general, they follow it much less than Democrats did when Trump was president. Democrats should act like Republicans and ignore it.
Democrats need to stop following the blue slip tradition and keep confirming judges. https://t.co/cox8ndWCSd
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) March 22, 2023
Get rid of the blue slip tradition. It’s worthless if only Democrats respect it. There’s no reason to expect Republicans to change their behavior.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) January 25, 2023
Each nominee today received blue slips from their home state senators, including from Indiana Republican Sens. Young and Braun for Judge Matthew Brookman.
— Senate Judiciary Committee (@JudiciaryDems) January 25, 2023
It’s an example worth noting because it shows this process can work – and result in outstanding nominees.
There are close to 40 judicial vacancies in red states that could go unfilled if Senate Democrats do not get rid of blue slips. pic.twitter.com/FVngrYGe8r
— Demand Justice (@WeDemandJustice) February 3, 2023
As noted here, blue slip vetoes aren’t even a consistent custom… It was instituted last century by segregationists. Senate decorum that bolstered slavery in the 19th century or white supremacy in the 20th, we can let go of in the 21st.https://t.co/dLzykWFUaY
— Tony Lowry (@TwainsPatriot) February 7, 2023
More tweets on Biden judicial picks
BREAKING: Despite longest 50-50 Senate in history, the Committee & @SenateDems had enormous success when it came to judges. In total, Committee voted to advance 126 noms & Senate confirmed 97 lifetime appointments—better than the first two years of the Obama & Trump Admins.
— Senate Judiciary Committee (@JudiciaryDems) December 23, 2022
This Senate has confirmed 97 federal judges.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) December 22, 2022
That’s more than the first Congress in either of the two previous administrations.
President Biden just announced his 28th round of nominees for federal judicial positions — bringing the number of announced federal judicial nominees to 150.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 22, 2022
Biden has already gotten more Black women confirmed to the US Court of Appeals than every other president in US history combined.
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) December 15, 2022
Senate Democrats have confirmed 95 of @POTUS's highly qualified and diverse judicial nominees to the federal bench:
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) December 12, 2022
About 75% are women
Almost 70% are people of color
Nearly 50% are women of color
Nearly 25% are Black women
And we will keep working to confirm more!
There are two Alabama vacancies, also not filled because of deference to home state Senators who refuse to return courtesy blue slips that would let nominations move forward. Where blue slips are unreasonably withheld by GOP Senators nominations should go forward regardless. https://t.co/tKA4so0GKM
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) December 6, 2022
Analysis: Democrats can keep confirming them now, after they kept the Senate majority. But thanks to the GOP’s 2015-16 blockade, the makeup of the courts hasn’t shifted as substantially.https://t.co/PH1X1iNFHk
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 21, 2022
Update on Biden judges
With Senate roll calls finished until November, worth noting that @POTUS has won confirmation of a HISTORIC total of 84 judicial nominations already…
— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) September 29, 2022
… including more black women on the Court of Appeals than all 45 prior Presidents COMBINED
BREAKING: With Arianna Freeman’s confirmation to the 3rd Circuit, the Senate has now confirmed eight Black women to serve on federal circuit courts during @POTUS’s presidency.
— The Leadership Conference (@civilrightsorg) September 29, 2022
Before last year, only eight Black women had EVER served at this level of the judiciary.
This matters.
President Biden has won Senate confirmation for more than 80 of his nominees to be federal judges — a breakneck speed that outpaces Trump at this juncture of his presidency. https://t.co/5R0GsU6okL
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 26, 2022
Senate Dems are looking to ramp up judicial confirmations this fall, with most of their top legislative priorities done and control of the Senate a toss-up
— Marianne LeVine (@marianne_levine) August 22, 2022
Warren, who spoke to Durbin before the recess:"Democrats really need to step up on judges" https://t.co/KUXtgTnGsh
Biden has appointed more federal judges than any president since JFK at this point in his tenure (Pew)https://t.co/QEbwcRuRXi pic.twitter.com/MODPtn5U7s
— Bruce Mehlman (@bpmehlman) August 13, 2022
More historic judicial noms from @POTUS.
— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) August 9, 2022
One metric: in the 232 years before @JoeBiden took office, a total of 8 Black women EVER served on the US Appeals Courts.
Today, @POTUS named his 13th Black female nominee to the Court of Appeals (in 19 mo's). https://t.co/1cFb5KG2UM
Tweets on Biden’s judicial appointments
From @paulwaldman1: This is Biden’s biggest unnoticed success https://t.co/XX5ll3nWCD
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) August 9, 2022
Biden also deserves praise for improving diversity on the federal bench. More than 76% of Biden’s have been women compared the roughly 42% of Obama’s and only 24 percent of Donald Trump’s.
— Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) August 8, 2022
https://t.co/wlujaJSqKC
Senate to confirm Roopali Desai to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the fifth AAPI woman to serve on a federal appellate court. Of Biden's judicial nominees, 75% have been women and over half have been women of color, Schumer said on the floor
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) August 4, 2022
On this day in his Presidency, Donald Trump had won confirmation of 44 judges. @POTUS has gotten 76 judges confirmed as of today.
— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) July 22, 2022
Update on Biden judicial appointments
President Biden just announced his 24th round of judicial nominees, bringing the total number of announced federal judicial nominees to 132.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 31, 2022
If confirmed, this slate would include the first openly LGBT judge to serve on the District Court for the Eastern District of California.
NEW: Biden is nominating Julie Rikelman, the lawyer who represented the Mississippi abortion clinic at the heart of the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade, to be an appeals court judge on the 1st Circuit. She's one of 9 new judicial nominees. https://t.co/0MJCmQz9fP
— Nate Raymond (@nateraymond) July 29, 2022
President Biden on Friday announced three more nominees to serve on federal courts in California, including the first out gay judge, the first Chinese American woman and the second Latina to serve on their respective courts.https://t.co/WKwfPQdPqt
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) July 30, 2022
Biden’s fine work on appointing judges
.@SenSchumer just teed up *12* more Biden judicial nominees for Senate votes — eleven for federal district courts, one for Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 14, 2022
So far, Senate has confirmed 46 Biden-picked judges to lifetime appointments, one of his most consequential acts as POTUS.
Breakdown of Biden's circuit and district court judicial confirmations:
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 22, 2021
78% of the confirmed judges are women, 53% are persons of color.
20% of the confirmed judges were civil rights lawyers, and 40% served as public defenders during their legal career.
Joe Biden is absolutely crushing judicial nominations, getting a historically diverse slate of brilliant judges confirmed at an unprecedented rate. His focus on women of color and public defenders is reshaping the federal judiciary in profound ways. https://t.co/DFQojZJ7D7
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) December 27, 2021
Biden has outpaced Trump in installing federal judges in his first year, sending 64 nominations and confirming 28 so far versus 57 sent by his predecessor at this point and 13 confirmed. But resistance is rising. @hillhulse https://t.co/fJjm78Fin9
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) December 5, 2021
Biden and the Dem Senate have rapidly turned around the composition of our lower courts.
— Matthew (@MattKleinOnline) December 28, 2021
Democratic-appointed justices now have majorities on more courts of appeals (1st, 2nd, 4th, 9th, 10th, DC, and federal) than GOP-appointed justices (3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 11th)
President Biden saw more of his judicial nominees confirmed in his first year than any president in the last 40 years. The Senate confirmed 18 federal judges in Donald Trump’s first year. https://t.co/wMAQ5ybm5U
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) December 19, 2021
Here's how many judges recent presidents got confirmed in their first year in office.
— Demand Justice #ExpandTheCourt (@WeDemandJustice) December 18, 2021
Biden: 40
Trump: 19
Obama: 13
Bush: 28
Clinton: 28
A big under the radar story. https://t.co/WaIbmElTln
— Josh Huder (@joshHuder) December 15, 2021
If confirmed, Nusrat Jahan Choudhury would be the first Muslim woman and the first Bangladeshi-American to serve as a federal judge. https://t.co/rleDlxJ7HU
— Axios (@axios) January 19, 2022
Biden brings the number of his federal judicial nominees to 83 with eight more names announced this morning. One of Biden’s new nominees, Nusrat Jahan Choudhury, would be the first Muslim-American woman to serve as a federal judge.
— Kate Sullivan (@KateSullivanDC) January 19, 2022
Democrats embrace the hardball judicial nomination tactics Republicans adopted under former President Donald Trump https://t.co/2yxkmftDTz
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 13, 2022
In one year, President Biden has nominated as many Black women to serve on the federal appeals courts as there were in all of U.S. history when he first took office.
— Senate Judiciary Committee (@JudiciaryDems) January 24, 2022
After a year in office @POTUS & @VP have worked to overtime to diversify the federal judiciary. With the nomination of Arianna Freeman to the 3rd Circuit this administration has nominated more Black women to the bench than ever administration history — combined. This is a BFD.
— Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta (@malcolmkenyatta) January 20, 2022
President Biden nominates one of the prosecutors who helped convict Derek Chauvin of murder in the killing of George Floyd to be a federal judge in Minnesota. https://t.co/e6kP2lluxf
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 16, 2022
Biden is appointing many judges
good news
President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats are putting judges on federal trial and appellate courts faster than any of Biden’s recent predecessors, including Trump. Eight judges have been confirmed. More than 30 other judicial nominations are pending. https://t.co/rAakOHP3AV
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) August 2, 2021
Biden is the first Democratic president in at least a generation who takes judges as seriously as Republicans take judges.https://t.co/QLnqhrIt5n
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) July 31, 2021
Only 11 Black women have ever held lifetime seats in federal appeals courts.
— The Recount (@therecount) July 21, 2021
In the past six months, Joe Biden has appointed three of them. pic.twitter.com/P4K3yBRAdv
An important story by @madialder about the California District Courts – they are in major need of judges 👇https://t.co/cW2uT1jE4f
— Marin K Levy (@marinklevy) July 28, 2021
Biden judges update 7/12/21
The Biden-Harris administration is breaking new ground.https://t.co/n60G517I24
— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) July 11, 2021