Washington — President biden will mark the 235 judicial confirmations he obtained during his only term in the White House, a figure that surpasses that of his predecessor, President-elect Donald Trump.
Joined by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, Mr. Biden will deliver remarks from the White House highlighting the judges he nominated and the The Democratic-led Senate confirmed this to the federal bank. The president’s judicial record includes one appointment to the Supreme Court, 45 to the federal courts of appeals, 187 to the U.S. district courts and two to the U.S. Court of International Trade.
Mr. Biden has chosen Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court was historicas she is the first black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court.
“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 four judges now on the federal bench was nominated by Mr. Biden, he said.
Since the start of his administration in 2021, the president, who chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee while in the Senate, has pledged to diversify the federal bench by appointing judges from diverse 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 appointing the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, Mr. Biden also appointed more Black women to the federal appeals courts than all previous presidential administrations combined, according to the White House.
The 235 judicial confirmations represent the most in a four-year term since late President Jimmy Carter took office, surpassing Trump’s appointments to the federal bench by one. Carter appointed no justices to the Supreme Court, but selected a record 262 judges to the federal courts after Congress passed legislation in 1978 that created 35 new judges on the appeals court and 117 seats on the district courts.
However, Trump appointed three justices to the Supreme Court, giving him a six-to-three conservative majority, and 54 judges to the federal appeals courts.
The thirteen courts of appeal hear more than 40,000 cases annually and usually make the final decision in a legal dispute, as the Supreme Court hears fewer than 100 cases per year.
