{"id":1033140,"date":"2024-05-23T15:03:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T15:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1033140"},"modified":"2024-05-23T19:54:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:54:13","slug":"icymi-a-major-milestone-senate-confirms-joe-bidens-200th-lifetime-federal-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-a-major-milestone-senate-confirms-joe-bidens-200th-lifetime-federal-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: &#8216;A Major Milestone&#8217;: Senate Confirms Joe Biden\u2019s 200th Lifetime Federal Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Key Point: <\/strong><em>\u201cThe Senate confirmed President Joe Biden\u2019s 200th judicial nominee on Wednesday, a significant milestone both in terms of the number of lifetime federal judges he has confirmed and the astounding diversity he has infused into the nation\u2019s courts. \u2026 He has put more women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people and professionally diverse people into lifetime federal judgeships than any of his predecessors, and in some cases, more than any of them combined.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/joe-biden-200-judges-confirmed_n_664cf427e4b0f45dcbadc848\"><strong>HuffPost<\/strong><\/a><strong>: &#8216;A Major Milestone&#8217;: Senate Confirms Joe Biden\u2019s 200th Lifetime Federal Judge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Jennifer Bendery, 5\/22\/24]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden\u2019s 200th judicial nominee on Wednesday, a significant milestone both in terms of the number of lifetime federal judges he has confirmed and the astounding diversity he has infused into the nation\u2019s courts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>With the Senate\u2019s confirmation of Angela Martinez to a U.S. district court in Arizona, <strong>Biden surpassed the number of lifetime federal judges that Donald Trump had confirmed by the same point in his presidency<\/strong>. Trump, who made judicial confirmations a major focus of his presidency, was at 196 at this point in his presidency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is the diversity of Biden\u2019s judges, though, that really jumps out. <strong>He has put more women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people and professionally diverse people into lifetime federal judgeships than any of his predecessors, and in some cases, more than any of them combined.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Nearly two-thirds of Biden\u2019s judges are women (127), and nearly two-thirds are people of color (125). About 40% of Biden\u2019s judges are women of color (79).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The professional diversity of Biden\u2019s judges is also off the charts. More than 40% of them (85) have backgrounds as public defenders or civil rights lawyers \u2015 <strong>a huge break from the centuries-long tradition <\/strong>of plucking people for federal judgeships from their jobs as prosecutors or corporate attorneys.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Biden has ushered in historic firsts for the federal bench, too. He appointed the first openly LGBTQ+ woman to serve on a U.S. appeals court, Judge Beth Robinson of the 2nd Court of Appeals. He appointed the first Muslim American federal judge, Zahid Quraishi, to a U.S. district court. He has appointed four Native American people to lifetime federal judgeships, which is half of all the Native American federal judges appointed in U.S. history.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>And, of course, Biden appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman and former public defender to serve on the nation\u2019s top court.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThis is a major milestone,\u201d Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) celebrated on the Senate floor ahead of Martinez\u2019s vote. <strong>\u201cSimply put, our 200 judges comprise the most diverse slate of judicial nominations under any president in American history.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cThe Senate confirmed President Joe Biden\u2019s 200th judicial nominee on Wednesday, a significant milestone both in terms of the number of lifetime federal judges he has confirmed and the astounding diversity he has infused into the nation\u2019s courts. \u2026 He has put more women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people and professionally diverse people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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