Joe Biden has a chance to rebalance America’s judiciary
A Democratic majority in the Senate should have plenty of time to focus on the nominations
THE MOST enduring legacy of Donald Trump’s presidency are the 234 judges he installed in the federal courts, amounting to more than a quarter of America’s judiciary and a third of the Supreme Court. Now that Democrats have retained control of the Senate, Joe Biden can make a mark of his own. He has already seated 85 judges, including 25 to the powerful circuit courts of appeal and one—Ketanji Brown Jackson—to the Supreme Court.
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United States November 26th 2022
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