How Biden Outdid Trump, Obama and George W. Bush in Confirming Federal Judges by This Point in Office, a Feat Overshadowed by War and Inflation
. . .Biden has appointed more judges to federal courts at this point in his tenure than any other president since John F. Kennedy.
As of August 8, 2022, exactly 566 days into Biden’s tenure, the Senate had confirmed a record-setting 75 judges nominated by Biden to federal courts, according to a tally from the Pew Research Center.
That’s more than Donald Trump, Barack Obama and George W. Bush had confirmed by this point in their presidencies as well as other presidents after JFK who remains the record holder for speedy nominations at this point in their tenure with 102. The overall number of Biden judicial nominees confirmed by the Senate stood at 78 as of August 26, according to UScourts.gov. That includes appeals and district court judges, along with one Supreme Court justice.
Biden’s nominations have also included a historic number of women and racial and ethnic minorities. Most notably, Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to be nominated and confirmed in a bipartisan vote for the Supreme Court.
In early August, when the Senate confirmed Indian-American lawyer Roopali Desai, to serve as a Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer highlighted the significance of her confirmation in creating a more diverse court. (Read more from “How Biden Outdid Trump, Obama and George W. Bush in Confirming Federal Judges by This Point in Office, a Feat Overshadowed by War and Inflation” HERE)
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