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The total number of Biden Article III judgeship nominees confirmed by the United States Senate was 235, including 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 are three vacancies on the U.S. courts of appeals and 38 vacancies on the U.S. district courts, [2] [3] as well as eight announced vacancies that may occur before the end of Trump's term (one for the courts of appeals and seven for district courts). [Note 1] [4] Trump has not made any recess appointments to the federal courts.
(Reuters) -The U.S. Senate's Democratic majority began a crusade on Tuesday to confirm as many new federal judges nominated by President Joe Biden as possible to avoid leaving vacancies that ...
Biden’s 235 judges named to the federal bench bests the number added by Donald Trump by one. ... Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman on the highest court in the ...
[335] She was the 8th Trump appointee to the federal bench rated as "Not Qualified" by the ABA's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary. [336] Before her appointment, the nominee had only taken part in two trials — both one-day trials in a state court conducted while she was still in law school. [336]
The attention on potential Supreme Court vacancies has so far been driven entirely by forces outside the court – and rampant speculation based on a series of murky clues and past practices.
In 2021, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued an 8–1 decision, holding that the Texas Attorney General does not have unilateral authority to prosecute election code violations. [25] All three incumbent Judges up for re-election were part of the majority decision.
Texas Supreme Court (2019-present); Texas Court of Appeals (2003-2018); Texas State District Judge (1997-2003) Please list highlights of your civic involvement.