washington – President Biden will mark Wednesday He obtained 235 judicial confirmations during his single term in the White House, a number that exceeds that of his predecessor, President-elect Donald Trump.
Mr. Biden is set to deliver remarks from the White House highlighting the judges he appointed and the The Democratic-led Senate has been confirmed on the federal bench. The president’s judicial record includes one appointment to the Supreme Court, 45 to federal appeals courts, 187 to US district courts, and two to the US Court of International Trade.
Mr. Biden’s pick of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court it was historicalas she is the first black woman to sit on the nation’s highest court.
Since the start of his administration in 2020, the president, who chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee when he was in the upper house, had pledged to diversify the federal bench by appointing judges from different professional and personal backgrounds. Mr. Biden’s judicial nominees included more than 45 public defenders, including Jackson, and 25 civil rights lawyers.
In addition to selecting the first black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, Mr. Biden also appointed more black women to federal appeals courts than all previous presidential administrations combined, according to the White House.
The 235 judicial confirmations represent the largest number in a four-year term since the late President Jimmy Carter took office and surpass Trump’s appointments to the federal bench for one Carter appointed no justices to the Supreme Court, but he selected a record 262 judges to federal courts after Congress in 1978 passed legislation creating 35 new appeals judges and 117 district court seats.
Trump, however, appointed three justices to the Supreme Court, consolidating a 6-3 conservative majority, and 54 judges to federal appeals courts.
The 13 appeals courts hear more than 40,000 cases a year and usually issue the final decision in a legal dispute, as the Supreme Court hears fewer than 100 cases each year.