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Biden had the most Article III judicial nominees confirmed during a president's first year in office since Ronald Reagan in 1981. [5] Biden appointed the most federal judges during the first two years of any presidency since John F. Kennedy. [6] Biden reached the milestone of 200 federal judicial confirmations on May 22, 2024.
Following is a list of individuals who have been mentioned in various news accounts as possible nominees for a Supreme Court appointment under Biden: Note: Individuals marked with an asterisk would fulfill Biden's commitment that his first nominee be a Black woman. [9] Bolded individuals have been selected by Biden for the Supreme Court.
Months before the commission was established, Amy Coney Barrett had been nominated to the Supreme Court by then-president Donald Trump. [2] This nomination was controversial. In 2016, Republicans had invoked the informal and seldom-used Thurmond rule to block the nomination of Merrick Garland , based on its proximity to a presidential election ...
President Joe Biden first zeroed in on a pair of finalists for his first U.S. Supreme Court pick when there were rumors last year that Justice Stephen Breyer would retire. Jackson is seen as the ...
President Biden is preparing to announce the formation of a commission to study reforming the Supreme Court. Officials familiar with the proposed commission say membership details and the group's ...
The commission tasked by President Joe Biden with studying potential changes to the Supreme Court has released its final draft report, a cautious take on proposals for expanding the court and ...
On April 6, 2017, when considering the nomination of Neil Gorsuch, in a party-line vote the Republican Senate majority invoked the so-called "nuclear option", voting to reinterpret Senate Rule XXII and change the cloture vote threshold for Supreme Court nominations to a simple majority of senators present and voting.
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest ranking judicial body in the United States.Established by Article III of the Constitution, the Court was organized by the 1st United States Congress through the Judiciary Act of 1789, which specified its original and appellate jurisdiction, created 13 judicial districts, and fixed the size of the Supreme Court at six, with one chief justice ...