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As of December 20, 2024, the United States Senate has confirmed 235 Article III judges nominated by Biden: one associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 45 judges for the United States courts of appeals, 187 judges for the United States district courts and two judges for the United States Court of International Trade. There ...
On January 26, 2022, it was reported that Justice Stephen Breyer planned to step down at the end of the court's current term, giving Biden his first opportunity to name a justice to the court. [8] On January 27, Biden reiterated his intention to keep his campaign promise to nominate a Black woman . [ 9 ]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A White House spokesperson noted that Biden has endorsed Supreme Court ethics and transparency legislation but didn’t comment on whether he favors term limits for justices.
Biden’s Supreme Court commission in its December 2021 report wrote that a code of conduct for the Supreme Court could either be internally adopted by the justices, or Congress could vote to ...
Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution, known as the Appointments Clause, empowers the President of the United States to nominate and, with the confirmation (advice and consent) of the United States Senate, appoint public officials, including justices of the Supreme Court.