Biden and Schumer working fast to confirm judges and counter Trump's reshaping of the federal bench [View all]

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Biden and Schumer working fast to confirm judges and counter Trump's reshaping of the federal bench

By Kate Sullivan, CNN
Updated 7:38 AM ET, Wed July 21, 2021

(CNN) -- President Joe Biden and the Democrat-led Senate are working quickly to appoint judges from a broad range of backgrounds to the federal bench as they counter Republican efforts to reshape the bench over the previous four years.

The push comes after former President Donald Trump, working with then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, appointed more than 200 federal judges and three Supreme Court justices during his term. Federal judges are appointed for life and serve long after a president leaves office.

Six months into Biden's presidency, eight of his judicial nominees have been confirmed. That is more than any other president at the same point in the last 50 years.

Tiffany Cunningham became Biden's eighth appointed judge when the Senate confirmed her on Monday to serve on the US Court of Appeals Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit. Cunningham also makes history as the first Black judge on the federal circuit.

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VERIFY: Yes, President Biden has had more judges confirmed by this point than any president in the last 50 years

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Author: Evan Koslof
Published: 12:20 PM EDT July 12, 2021
Updated: 8:52 AM EDT July 13, 2021

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