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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 ...
The announcement that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire comes as something of a relief to Democrats, many of whom worry that their chances of replacing him with a liberal justice ...
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.
President Joe Biden's commission to study potential changes to the U.S. Supreme Court held its first meeting on Wednesday and will have six months to issue a report on reforms including possibly ...