President Joe Biden and Democrats have transformed the Senate into a judicial confirmation factory that has just passed a major milestone in its drive to remake the federal courts, approving the 100th District Court nominee since Biden took office.
President of the United States from 2017 to 2021Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 21, 2023.
“These judges will affect America long after just about every senator is out of here,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the majority leader, who has had a longtime interest in judicial confirmations. “It is hugely important. It’s a step-by-step process. It’s hard.
Without such a push, Biden is in danger of falling behind his predecessor by the end of the year, they say. “It really underscores the need for the Senate to pick up its pace generally,” Feingold said. “Waiting does not help anyone.” Republicans say the circuit courts — the level between District Courts, where trials are held, and the Supreme Court — are far more influential than the trial courts when it comes to settling matters of federal power and social policy. They also point out that Democrats have benefited from a Republican-led rules change in 2019 that substantially reduced the Senate floor time required to win confirmation of a District Court nominee.
The big test for the White House and Senate Democrats will come when they run out of openings in states represented by Democratic senators and face the prospect of being unable to fill District Court vacancies in states with Republican senators, who can kill a nomination by denying a “blue slip” under a Senate tradition that gives senators a say in the selection of judges from their home states.
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