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The partisan divide over judicial nominations can also be seen in both the referral and the confirmation vote margins received by nominees over the past few decades. Since the 1990s, the votes by which the Judiciary Committee refers nominations to the full Senate have frequently fallen along party lines.
Instead, Biden reached the 200 milestone on Wednesday when the Senate voted 66-28 to confirm U.S. Magistrate Judge Angela Martinez as a federal district court judge in Arizona and then hit 201 ...
On April 6, 2017, when considering the nomination of Neil Gorsuch, in a party-line vote the Republican Senate majority invoked the so-called "nuclear option", voting to reinterpret Senate Rule XXII and change the cloture vote threshold for Supreme Court nominations to a simple majority of senators present and voting.
Judge Nomination date Confirmation date Confirmation vote Began active service Ended active service Ended senior status 1 Armando O. Bonilla: July 13, 2021 [Rn 14] December 18, 2021: voice vote [FC 1] February 17, 2022: Incumbent – 2 Carolyn N. Lerner: July 13, 2021: December 18, 2021: voice vote [FC 2] February 17, 2022: Incumbent – 3 ...
(Reuters) -The U.S. Senate's Democratic majority began a crusade on Tuesday to confirm as many new federal judges nominated by President Joe Biden as possible to avoid leaving vacancies that ...
WASHINGTON — The Democratic-led Senate is poised to confirm President Joe Biden’s 200th federal judge Wednesday, ... 45% said it would make them “more likely” to vote for them, while 20% ...
Judge Nomination date Confirmation date Confirmation vote Began active service Ended active service Ended senior status 1: Ryan T. Holte: September 28, 2017 [Rn 2] June 10, 2019: 60–35 [FC 1] July 11, 2019: Incumbent – 2: Richard Hertling: May 7, 2018 [Rn 2] June 10, 2019: 69–27 [FC 2] June 12, 2019: Incumbent – 3: David A. Tapp: March ...
The confirmation of Judge Tiffany Rene Johnson also ties the record for the most Black lifetime judges confirmed during a presidency. President Joe Biden marked yet another historic moment for his ...