Biden Extends Historic Run of Judicial Nominees
More judges nominated this year than any time since Reagan was president
President Biden announced his final nominations to the federal judiciary for 2021, expanding what has become an historic year for a president's run of installing federal judges.
The president’s nominee for the US Court of Appeals or the Eleventh Circuit, Nancy Gbana Abudu, would be the first African-American woman judge ever to sit on the Eleventh Circuit, the second woman of color ever to sit on that court, and only the third African-American judge ever to sit on that court. She would also be the first person of color to serve on the Eleventh Circuit from Georgia.
J. Michelle Childs is Biden's nominee for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
This is Biden’s twelfth round of nominees for federal judicial positions, bringing the number of announced federal judicial nominees to 75.
These are the president’s final judicial nominations for 2021, a year during which 40 circuit and district court judges were confirmed – the most since Ronald Reagan occupied the White House. And 80 percent of those confirmed judges are women, with 53 percent being people of color, according to the White House.
Although conservative Democratic Sen Joe Manchin has consistently frustrated Biden and the Washington Democrats' domestic agenda, the position he holds allowing for Democrats to maintain their narrow Senate majority, preserving that majority has enabled the president's successful track record in successfully installing left of center judges on the federal bench to counter the run Donald Trump made for four years nominating right-wing judges to the bench.
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