TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Barry Kolar on Dec 30, 2022

The White House and Democratic senators are closing out the first two years of Biden's presidency having installed more federal judges than did Biden's two immediate predecessors, the Associated Press reports. So far, 97 lifetime federal judges have been confirmed under Biden, a figure that outpaces both Trump (85) and Barack Obama (62) at this point in their presidencies, according to data from the White House and the office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. D-N.Y. It is also a more diverse group of judges, led by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, that court's first Black woman.