'Stunning Diversity': How Joe Biden Reshaped The Courts In 2023
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The president’s pace of judicial confirmations slowed, but he put historic numbers of women, people of color and public defenders on the federal bench.
Joe Biden did something this year that no other president has done.
He put a citizen of the Navajo Nation into a lifetime federal judgeship.
He also put a Bangladeshi American and Muslim woman into a lifetime federal judgeship.
And he put 30 people into lifetime federal judgeships who have strong backgrounds in protecting people’s civil rights, including public defenders and civil rights attorneys.
This is just a sampling of the historic diversity that Biden has been ushering onto the nation’s federal courts. But the looming question for 2024 is, can he keep it going?
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