Biden quietly remaking courts to counter rightward lurch under Trump
By
Haisten Willis
May 3, 2024 6:00 am
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President Joe Biden may be trailing former President Donald Trump in the opinion polls, but the Democratic incumbent now has pulled ahead in one metric that will long outlive both their presidencies.
Much ink was spilled during the Trump administration over his record-breaking pace of judicial appointments with the help of then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), but Biden has an edge on the judicial legacy.
Like Trump, Biden is hoping that his nominees will make rulings favorable to his party during their terms, and he has also made a point of appointing female and minority candidates to powerful positions.
The pair were tied at 193 appointments each at this point in their tenures for much of April, but Biden retook the lead earlier this week when the Senate confirmed Georgia Alexakis for a district judgeship in Illinois on Wednesday, giving him 194.
“I promised to have an administration that looks like America … a court that represents all the people,” Biden said on March 11 during a campaign speech in Atlanta. “Sixty-five percent of the judges I’ve appointed are women. Sixty-five percent are people of color. I’ve appointed more black women to the circuit courts than every other president in American history combined.”
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