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Sunday, August 14th, 2022

Biden has appointed more federal judges than any president since JFK at this point in his tenure

Author:     JOHN GRAMLICH
Source:     Pew Research Center
Publication Date:     AUGUST 9, 2022
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Stephan:   Here is some excellent good news. Biden with help from Schumer has been able to appoint more federal judges than any president since Kennedy, and two-thirds of them are racial or ethnic minorities, and three-quarters are women. This means that the Republican MAGAt attempt to take over the federal judiciary has failed. They have the Supreme Court because no one has the courage to remove the Trump appointees and Clarence Thomas, but maybe something can be done after November if the Democrat majority can be increased in the Senate. That is up to you and me, and how we vote. WE know MAGAts constitute about a third of the voters, but that won't matter if the other two-thirds vote for Democrats. Do not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
A bar chart showing that Biden has appointed far more federal judges than Trump and Obama at the same point in their presidencies

President Joe Biden has appointed more judges to the federal courts at this stage in his tenure than any president since John F. Kennedy, and his appointees include a record number of women and racial and ethnic minorities, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of data from the Federal Judicial Center.

As of Aug. 8, the first day of the U.S. Senate’s August break, Biden has successfully appointed 75 judges to the three main tiers of the federal judicial system: the district courts, appeals courts and U.S. Supreme Court. That’s far more than the number appointed by Donald Trump (51) and Barack Obama (42) at the same stage in their presidencies, and slightly more than the number appointed by several other recent presidents – including George W. Bush (72), Bill Clinton (74) and Ronald Reagan (72) – by this point in their tenures.

Among all presidents going back to Dwight D. Eisenhower, only Kennedy had appointed more federal judges than Biden at the same stage of his tenure. Kennedy had appointed 102 […]

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