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President-elect Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices during his first term in the White House, significantly reshaping the nation’s highest court. But President Biden appointed more federal judges than Trump in the past four years.
According to new data from the Federal Judicial Center, Biden is scheduled to finish his term installed 228 judges in US district and appellate courts, including a record number of minority judges and judges in district courts across the country.
President Biden answers a question from a reporter before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on January 30. (AP/Andrew Harnik)
That total was helped in part by a flurry of eleventh-hour confirmations from Senate Democrats, who scrambled to approve Biden’s judicial nominees last month in the final days of the 118th Congress and while still holding a narrow majority in the room
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President Biden and Chuck Schumer scored several court victories due to GOP Senate absences. (Reuters)
Trump appointed 226 federal and appellate judges during his first term in the White House, just short of Biden’s total.
Biden also placed a Supreme Court justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first black woman on the nation’s highest court.
Sixty percent of Biden-appointed judges are black, Hispanic, Asian, or belong to another racial or ethnic minority group. according to data compiled by the Pew Research Center, the highest percentage for any US president.
Biden’s federal judge appointments, both in diversity and scope, bear similarities to another one-term Democratic president, Jimmy Carter.
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The Supreme Court of the United States on November 15, 2023 in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
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Unlike Biden, Carter did not appoint anyone to the Supreme Court. But he appointed more than 260 federal and appeals court judges during his four years in office, including a record number of women and minority judges, helping the courts better reflect the populations they represented. The appointments helped reshape the federal bench and paved the way for women and minorities to serve on the Supreme Court.
Mostly, Carter gets credit for the facility Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a decision that later set her up for promotion when Democratic President Clinton tapped her for the nation’s highest court in 1993.
