Biden's focus on confirming judges reshaped courts as Democrats challenge Trump agenda [View all]
Source: USA Today
Published 5:08 a.m. ET Feb. 15, 2025 | Updated 12:03 p.m. ET Feb. 15, 2025
WASHINGTON – Before Democrats surrendered control of Congress and the White House to Republicans in January, they celebrated the fact that Joe Biden had put more judges on the federal bench than any recent president in a single term.
"Judges shape our lives," Biden said on social media in December, touting the confirmation of his 235th judicial nominee and what he called "the legacy I'll leave with the men and women I've appointed."
That legacy has become even more important for Democrats now that the courts are their best chance of thwarting President Donald Trump’s efforts to significantly downsize and reshape the federal government in ways that are testing his legal authority to do so.
Nearly six out of 10 full-time federal district judges – the first judicial layer to consider the growing number of lawsuits against Trump’s actions – have now been appointed by Democratic presidents, according to the Brookings Institution. At the start of Biden’s presidency, the appointments were nearly evenly divided after Trump picked almost as many judges as Biden later got confirmed.
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