Biden and the Democrats will publish a judicial confirmation to defeat Trump’s results

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After competing to confirm more than 200 nominees of Senate Democrats in US courts, Joe Biden sealed his legacy on the federal bench, surpassing Donald Trump’s presidency.

By the time Congress wrapped up its final session last week, Biden’s number of judicial nominees had reached 235, surpassing the 234 federal judges confirmed during Trump’s first term. In the year Since the 1980s, there have been more judges appointed by the president in one four-year term, Biden said in a statement.

As Biden’s presidency nears its end, Democrats in the Senate — tasked with confirming federal judges — have pushed for as many confirmations as possible before taking over Congress and handing the White House to Republicans next month.

They hope that this latest dash will stem the tide of judicial confirmation in Trump’s first term, fundamentally changing America’s judicial system and swinging courts at all levels to the right.

Trump’s nomination of three Supreme Court justices has tipped the ideological balance of the nation’s most powerful bench, splitting it 6-3 between conservative and liberal justices.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority handed down rulings that have rippled across the American public, including overturning a decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion — a move that has emboldened right-wing judges on lower courts, many of whom have been appointed to rule by Trump. In support of conservative causes.

The growing emboldenedness of America’s judiciary, coupled with an increasingly volatile political environment, has turned judicial appointments into a critical frontier of presidential power. Judges at every level have the opportunity to weigh in on challenges to administrations’ rules and regulations and provide strong input on controversial policies.

The Democrats’ last-minute push, which began after Biden’s election loss in November, angered Trump. He It is called. Senate to block Biden’s judicial nominations: “Democrats are trying to stack the courts with extremist graff judges on their way out the door.”

“There is increasing polarization around the appointment of federal judges,” said Paul Butler, a professor of law at Georgetown. The Republican Party has historically prioritized judicial nominations — and Biden has taken a leaf out of that playbook, Butler added.

Biden’s appointments have also been noted for their diversity, including what he described as “long-overlooked judges and experienced judges with a record.”

Approximately two-thirds of confirmed judges are women and people of color. Biden has appointed more black women to U.S. district courts than any previous president, and lone Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was the first black woman on the high court.

“Biden’s focus was on correcting all those decades where people other than straight white men weren’t considered for the bench,” Butler said.

Biden has nominated more than 45 public defenders, as well as labor and civil rights lawyers — at least 10 and as many as 25 — to the federal bench.

“It’s critical to a thriving, pluralistic democracy that we have judges who have studied and worked to understand how the laws affect people’s lives, not just like us,” said Lena Zwarenstein, senior director of Fair Courts. Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Civil-Rights Group.

The pendulum is set to swing back again. A new conservative judicial appointment is expected when Trump returns to the White House next month and Republicans take over the Senate.

“I’m incredibly proud of how the Senate Republican Conference worked together with former President Trump to shape the federal judiciary,” the new Republican Senate leader, John Tunu, said earlier this year. “I look forward to working with him to redouble our efforts in his next term.”