'As many as possible, as soon as possible': Democrats scramble to confirm Biden's judicial nominees before November
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN
Updated 7:20 AM ET, Mon April 4, 2022
(CNN)Voting to advance Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be the main event when the Senate Judiciary Committee meets Monday.
But the committee will also be sending to the Senate floor several other federal judge nominees, as Democrats push to keep the judiciary confirmation machinery cranking while Jackson dominated the spotlight.
Since Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement in late January, the Senate has confirmed 16 lower court judges -- all while Democrats were managing the high-stakes, resource-intensive Supreme Court nomination process. Two district court judges the Senate confirmed on Thursday brought the total of appointees of President Joe Biden on the federal bench up to 58.
"Senate Democrats are proud of this record and we're going to keep it going," Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, told reporters last week. "This is one of the most important things we can do."
Democrats have outpaced the numbers of judges former President Donald Trump had confirmed at an equivalent point in his presidency, though they don't currently stand to match his imprint on the Supreme Court, with Jackson's confirmation not shifting that court's fundamental conservative lean.
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