Biden’s judges are also far more diverse than any previous president’s appointees. Most (71 percent) of the judges he’s successfully appointed to the federal bench are nonwhite, and the overwhelming majority (75 percent) are also women — far outstripping previous presidents, including his ...
Of the 97 judges confirmed by the Senate in the last two years, three quarters of them are women, and nearly half of the appointees — including Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson— are women of color. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, from left, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson,...
While a handful of appointees went to Ivy League schools, others graduated from lesser-known colleges. By Josh Moody | Jan. 27, 2021, at 9:00 a.m. Save More View as article Table of Contents 1/22 Credit See where key Biden Cabinet and staff picks earned undergraduate degrees. With a...
But Biden appointees at DHS and the National Security Council had already proposed reviving the policy months earlier, in the spring, according to four people familiar with the plan. Reviving Remain in Mexico, the people said, was presented as a deterrence tool. Some officials believed the policy...
An inordinate number of judicial appointees to lower courts have been either U.S. Attorneys or federal magistrates; one study revealed that 175 out of President Obama’s 300 appointments to the District Courts had these backgrounds, 49 of them as magistrates, whose work involves passing on search...
The new commander-in-chief thanked the families of his appointees since the administration officials will be working long hours. The president spoke of the importance of containing the COVID-19 pandemic and distributing the vaccine, as well as of rescuing the economy and improving it. ...
Troy said that as a result of the Daschle nomination collapse, "the lobbying line became much more heavily scrutinized for presidential appointees going forward. Also, Obama had none of his appointees at Health and Human Services confirmed when the Swine Flu hit in March of 200...
As the chart below shows, only around 16 percent of Trump’s appointees to the federal district and appellate courtsaren’twhite. That’s slightly lower than the share of Bush’s nonwhite appointees (18 percent) and a whopping 19 percentage points lower than ...
voting population." But the three-judge appeals court panel -- all appointees of President Trump -- agreed with the Texas secretary of state's argument that Abbott had already sufficiently expanded absentee voting options during the 2020 election by allowing people to return ballots before Election...
For days, the president’s appointees kept silent as buzz about alleged mystery drones escalated. Then they offered vague assurances that whatever the lights in the sky are, there is no sign that they are dangerous or operating illegally — and that many aren’t drones at all, but rather ju...