Women Dominate Biden's First Slate of Judicial Nominees More Reuters FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to reporters as he holds his first formal news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 25, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis WASHINGTON (Reuters...
If confirmed by the Senate, one of the nominees would become the first Muslim to serve as a federal judge. Another nominee would be the first Asian-American woman to serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Circuit. The nominations also include a justice who would bec...
"The more partisan the voting becomes, the less belief that the public is likely to have that Congress is making a merit-based or qualifications-based assessment of judicial nominees," the liberal justice said on the Senate confirmation process. Biden's nomination of Jackson for the Supreme Cour...
He said the bill would also have created new judgeships in states where senators haven't filled existing judicial vacancies and that those efforts "suggest that concerns about judicial economy and caseload are not the true motivating force behind passage of this bill now. ...
"Today's nominees embody the demographic and professional diversity and forward-thinking that will ensure justice is served to the American people when they enter a courtroom," Nan Aron, president of the Alliance for Justice, said in a statement. ...
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 ...
Bush, the highest share of confirmed nominees than any president since Bill Clinton and the most appointments since Ronald Reagan.2 “ââThere were some progressives who were worried during the Trump years that Biden would be sleepy on [judicial appointments], but the Biden ...
In the new administration, identity politics and career advancement for judicial nominees take priority over justice.
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