Since the start of his administration in 2021, the president, who chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee when he was in the upper chamber, had pledged to diversify the federal bench by appointing judges fromvarying professional and personal backgrounds. Mr. Biden's judicial nominees included more t...
When former President Donald Trump left office in January, one of the most formidable aspects of his legacy was his imprint on the federal courts. In Trump’s four years in the White House, he appointed three Supreme Court justices, 54 appeals court judges and 174 district court judges, fill...
President Joe Biden’s commitment to diversifying the federal judiciary has culminated in a historic achievement: appointing 40 Black women to lifetime judgeships, the most of any president in U.S. history. Further, Biden has appointed 62 Black judges, cementing his presidency as one focused on ...
Catherine Henry would become the eighth federal judge Biden has appointed in Pennsylvania if she is confirmed by the Senate. Catherine HenryRead morePhoto courtesy of the Federal Defender's Office in Philadelphia
Boomrad pointed to Mr. Biden repealing the Muslim ban, appointing a record number of Muslim Americans, including federal court judges, and helping to resolve the longstanding Lebanese Israeli maritime border dispute, during the early days of his presidency. ...
Democrats are now finally understanding the power of judges as a voting tool, and Biden has made judicial nominations a priority, appointing a record number of judges for a president at this point in his first term, including some of the most diverse picks yet to the judiciary. Biden often...
and President Trump has appointed theleast diverse group of federal judges— both in terms of race and gender — in the past three decades. The number of non-white and women members of the U.S. population far surpasses theproportion of white and male nominees to the federal court system, ...
The Supreme Court decision comes weeks before a presidential election in which Democratic nominee Kamala Harris has put abortion at the center of her campaign, attacking Republican challenger Donald Trump for appointing judges to the high court who overturned nationwide abortion ...
Trump ended up with three Supreme Court nominees and 54 federal appeals court judges, reshaping the courts for a generation. Democrats are now finally understanding the power of judges as a voting tool, and Biden has made judicial nominations a priority, appoint...
Mr Trump has taken credit for appointing Supreme Court judges who revoked theRoe v Waderuling in 2022. It underpinned federal protections for the rights to abortions, and has been a fixture of Mr Biden's re-election campaign. When asked about a recent Supreme Court ruling decision to app...