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Following his election victory in 2020, U.S. president Joe Biden had 4,000 political appointments to make to the federal government. Of those 4,000 political appointments, more than 1250 require Senate confirmation. Upon taking office, Biden quickly placed more than 1,000 high-level officials into roles that did not require confirmation. [1]
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.
President Joe Biden officially made history on Friday when he announced Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to become the The post President Biden makes history with Supreme Court nomination of ...
During the 2020 Democratic primary campaign, Biden pledged to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court, [1] [2] [3] although unlike his opponent, Donald Trump, Biden did not release a specific list of potential nominees during the 2020 general election campaign.
President Joe Biden's selection of a Black woman, Ketanji Brown Jackson, for the Supreme Court drew praise from Black leaders.
(Reuters) -President Joe Biden surpassed a milestone 200th appointment to the federal judiciary on Wednesday as the U.S. Senate confirmed two more of his nominees, exceeding his Republican ...
President Biden will make many nominations to key roles in the Department of Justice, including the attorney general, deputy attorney general, and solicitor general.As with all other nominations, almost all of them have to be confirmed by the United States Senate before they can start their service.
President Joe Biden marked yet another historic moment for his administration in his final days in office on Monday when the U.S. Senate confirmed his 40th Black female judge to the federal bench.