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.

It’s an example worth noting because it shows this process can work – and result in outstanding nominees.

— Senate Judiciary Committee (@JudiciaryDems) January 25, 2023

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

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.

That’s more than the first Congress in either of the two previous administrations.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) December 22, 2022

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:

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!

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) December 12, 2022

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

With Senate roll calls finished until November, worth noting that @POTUS has won confirmation of a HISTORIC total of 84 judicial nominations already…

… including more black women on the Court of Appeals than all 45 prior Presidents COMBINED

— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) September 29, 2022

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.

Before last year, only eight Black women had EVER served at this level of the judiciary.

This matters.

— The Leadership Conference (@civilrightsorg) September 29, 2022

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

Warren, who spoke to Durbin before the recess:"Democrats really need to step up on judges" https://t.co/KUXtgTnGsh

— Marianne LeVine (@marianne_levine) August 22, 2022

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.

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

— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) August 9, 2022

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.
https://t.co/wlujaJSqKC

— Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) August 8, 2022

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

President Biden just announced his 24th round of judicial nominees, bringing the total number of announced federal judicial nominees to 132.

If confirmed, this slate would include the first openly LGBT judge to serve on the District Court for the Eastern District of California.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 31, 2022

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

.@SenSchumer just teed up *12* more Biden judicial nominees for Senate votes — eleven for federal district courts, one for Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

So far, Senate has confirmed 46 Biden-picked judges to lifetime appointments, one of his most consequential acts as POTUS.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 14, 2022

Breakdown of Biden's circuit and district court judicial confirmations:

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.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 22, 2021

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.

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)

— Matthew (@MattKleinOnline) December 28, 2021

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.

Biden: 40
Trump: 19
Obama: 13
Bush: 28
Clinton: 28

— Demand Justice #ExpandTheCourt (@WeDemandJustice) December 18, 2021

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

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.

In the past six months, Joe Biden has appointed three of them. pic.twitter.com/P4K3yBRAdv

— The Recount (@therecount) July 21, 2021

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

President Biden is on the fastest pace for judicial confirmations in a first presidential term in more than 50 years. https://t.co/TJjx4lSSph

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 1, 2021

In the last four administrations, the average number of judicial nominations before July 4th of the President's first year has been 14.

Today, @POTUS is announcing his 32nd judicial nominee. https://t.co/DhbTcEKx7z

— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) June 30, 2021

Punchbowl News: The Senate has confirmed more of President Biden's nominees for the district and circuit court posts than any president in their first six months since Richard Nixon.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 26, 2021

Morning! ☕️

Biden quietly hit a milestone yesterday: He's confirmed more lifetime federal judges than any president has done in 50+ years by this point in their first six months in office. https://t.co/epxnNE6p8B

— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) June 25, 2021

With the confirmation of Judge Griggsby, @POTUS has now had more judges confirmed to the federal bench before July 1, then any President in the past 50 years! https://t.co/isXGhntLI4

— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) June 16, 2021

Biden nominated as many minority women to be judges in four months as Trump had confirmed in four years. https://t.co/df4vcv41NT

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 15, 2021

1st Biden judge to be confirmed out of at least 70+ vacancies in the judiciary. Many more to come.

Manchin can be infuriating, but if he’s not in the Senate as a Democrat, a Majority Leader McConnell would block these lifetime appointments. https://t.co/16DzUbY0MW

— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) June 8, 2021

JUST IN: Senate confirms Biden's first judge https://t.co/mBkqjEG1xb

— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 8, 2021

The 16 NO votes: Blackburn (R-TN)
Blunt (R-MO)
Braun (R-IN)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Cruz (R-TX)
Hawley (R-MO)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Johnson (R-WI)
Lankford (R-OK)
Marshall (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Sasse (R-NE)
Scott (R-FL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Tuberville (R-AL) https://t.co/ITL9TPERxb

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 10, 2021

Senate Dems to start confirming Biden's judges to 'restore the balance' in courts https://t.co/yVT1yvGn7V

— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) June 8, 2021

The Senate confirmed the first two judges of President Biden’s tenure:

Judge Neals of New Jersey and Judge Rodriguez of Colorado.

These judges are only the first of many to come with President Biden and the Senate Democratic Majority.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) June 9, 2021

Speaking of judges: The Senate yesterday confirmed the first two judges nominated under Biden, Judge Julien Neals (NJ) and Judge Regina Rodriguez (CO) — both had been nominated under Obama but didn't advance in the then-GOP-controlled Senate pic.twitter.com/zpvzZiRB9t

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) June 9, 2021

I just set up votes on more of Pres. Biden's judicial nominees:

Ketanji Brown Jackson will serve on the powerful DC Circuit Court of Appeals.

Zahid Quraishi—who will be the 1st American Muslim federal judge in US history—will serve on the District Court for the District of NJ. pic.twitter.com/KJHIaTPgoW

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) June 9, 2021