President Joe Biden's nominees to the federal bench are winning U.S. Senate confirmation at a pace not seen in half a century, as Democrats race to put their stamp on the increasingly conservative judiciary before they potentially lose their control of the chamber.
All four are Black women. Biden has promised to use his nominees to add greater personal and professional diversity to the bench, with people of color, women, public defenders and civil rights litigators among his nominees.
Biden's nominees have also been moving swiftly because of the states he has made his judicial picks in: They have all hailed from states with no Republican senators, allowing Biden to avoid dealing with the Senate's historic "blue slip" tradition. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, has continued to not allow "blue slips" for circuit nominees.
Marin Levy, a professor at Duke University School of Law, said the Biden administration's progress in securing confirmations came despite inheriting a 30-year low of 46 vacancies, compared to 108 for Trump.And Wheeler said at some point soon, Biden's ability to maintain the crisp pace will necessarily slow as he's forced to try to finally fill any vacancies in states with Republican senators.
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