'A Major Milestone': Senate Confirms Joe Biden’s 200th Lifetime Federal Judge
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Not only has Biden outpaced Trump with the number of judges confirmed by this point in his presidency, but he's infused the nation’s courts with unprecedented diversity.
WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s 200th judicial nominee on Wednesday, a significant milestone both in terms of the sheer number of lifetime federal judges he’s gotten confirmed and the astounding diversity he has infused into the nation’s courts.
Biden has surpassed the number of lifetime federal judges that Donald Trump had confirmed by this point in his presidency. Trump, who made judicial confirmations a major focus of his presidency, was at 196 by this point.
It is the diversity of Biden’s judges, though, that really stands out. He has put more women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people and professionally diverse people into lifetime federal judgeships than any of his predecessors, and in some cases, more than any of them combined.
Nearly two-thirds of Biden’s judges are women (127), and nearly two-thirds are people of color (125). About 40% of Biden’s judges are women of color (79).
To put this into some context: A total of 3,254 white men have served on the Supreme Court, appeals courts or district courts since the U.S. federal court system was created in 1789, according to the Federal Judicial Center.
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