Doesn’t it not really matter that much since the majority of SCOTUS judges are R appointees, and they get to pick and choose which appeals they want to rule on?
I’m not American, so please forgive me if I’m misunderstanding your judicial system.
awesome, that means abortion rights are protected again, right?
Why don’t we just take the whole “appointment of judges” away. Why are we not electing judges?
Direct popular vote judge elections have their own set of issues - at the very least for lower courts
For instance, they tend to lead towards judges issuing out harsher penalties when campaigning than they normally would to appear “'tough on crime”
Look who the electorate just chose to run the country. You want them selecting judges too!? It’s slightly better the way it is since there’s at least some oversight.
Now that Dems already lost the vote and don’t need to dangle carrots for fear votes, they gotta make some PR moves for 2028.
He’s been appointing judges this whole time, it just doesn’t make headlines. 235 judges didn’t get appointed overnight. Biden has his very real problems, don’t make new ones up that just create apathy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Joe_Biden
This is the dumbest flex.
Not a flex. It’s incredibly important
Ok, but I’ll admit I’m confused on the praise or whatever is going on. Appointing judges is the duty of the President, so he did his job? Well he doesn’t actually appoint, it’s the senate who confirms, so, yay Senate?
To Cohen, the law professor from Drexel, the news is more nuanced than either Democrats or Republicans would like it to be. “Multiple things can be true at the same time,” he told me Sunday. “It’s fantastic they confirmed so many judges to counterbalance the Trump cadre of judges. But also, there should be zero vacancies remaining.”
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there are still 36 judicial vacancies he can fill in the federal courts, all but 2 in the district courts. (A couple of Biden’s nominees did not wind up being confirmed after he reportedly did not formally submit their nominations to the Senate in time.)
so if we’re averaging it out like he didn’t turn in 38 assignments, he got a 86% (B grade). Happy he did the thing, just not sure on the fanfare of it all.
