Democrats Are Remaking the Federal Courts at a Record-Breaking Pace
Skip to Comments By John R. Lott, Jr. With the narrowest of Senate majorities, President Biden is remaking the federal courts at a record-breaking rate . Biden has successfully confirmed twice as many federal Circuit and District Court judges as any modern president had at this point in their presidencies. The record pace isn’t because Biden is making nominations more quickly, but because the Senate, with the help of Lindsay Graham , are confirming them more quickly. By the end of his administration, Trump had confirmed 54 Circuit Court judges , but was only able to bring the courts into rough political balance, with Republicans controlling seven of the Circuit courts and Democrats controlling the other six. Remember when Chief Justice John Roberts castigated President Trump for referring to a District Court judge as an “Obama judge”? Roberts contradicted Trump in an extraordinary statement: “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, ...