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Following is a list of individuals who have been mentioned in various news accounts as possible nominees for a Supreme Court appointment under Biden: Note: Individuals marked with an asterisk would fulfill Biden's commitment that his first nominee be a Black woman. [9] Bolded individuals have been selected by Biden for the Supreme Court.
Biden had the most Article III judicial nominees confirmed during a president's first year in office since Ronald Reagan in 1981. [2] Biden appointed the most federal judges during the first two years of any presidency since John F. Kennedy. [3] Biden reached the milestone of 200 federal judicial confirmations on May 22, 2024.
Upon taking office, Biden quickly placed more than 1,000 high-level officials into roles that did not require confirmation. [1] As of December 3, 2024 [update] , according to tracking by The Washington Post and Partnership for Public Service covering 810 positions, 673 nominees have been confirmed by the United States Senate , 2 are being ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden's selection on Friday of Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman U.S. Supreme Court nominee immediately thrusts the federal appeals court judge ...
By nominating D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first African American woman to sit on the Supreme Court, President Joe Biden is breaking an important barrier ...
A source told TIME that Biden is considering ten candidates for the vacancy opened by Stephen Breyer. How Joe Biden Is Choosing a Supreme Court Nominee Skip to main content
Jackson was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Joe Biden on February 25, 2022, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate and sworn into office that same year. [1] [2] She is the first black woman and the first former federal public defender to serve on the Supreme Court. Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Miami, Florida.
The announcement that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire comes as something of a relief to Democrats, many of whom worry that their chances of replacing him with a liberal justice ...