Biden, Democratic-led Senate break record for confirming Black women to Court of Appeals
Before Joe Biden’s presidency, only eight Black women had been nominated and confirmed to the court in U.S. history.
By Oliver Willis - December 15, 2022Before Joe Biden’s presidency, only eight Black women had been nominated and confirmed to the court in U.S. history.
By Oliver Willis - December 15, 2022So much for treating the first Black woman nominated for the Supreme Court with respect.
By Josh Israel - March 23, 2022But Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee objected to any policy questions for Amy Coney Barrett in 2020.
By Josh Israel - March 22, 2022President Joe Biden is using his choice to fulfill one of his early campaign promises.
By Associated Press - January 29, 2022Justice Stephen Breyer has not yet even formally announced his retirement.
By Josh Israel - January 27, 2022Democrats are eager to turn the page on the Trump administration, especially when it comes to judges.
By Associated Press - June 07, 2021Democrats are eager to turn the page from the Trump administration, especially when it comes to judges.
By Associated Press - April 29, 2021President Joe Biden nominated three Black women to federal courts of appeals, a pathway to the Supreme Court.
By Associated Press - March 30, 2021President Joe Biden is keeping his campaign promise to create a commission to study judicial reform.
By Josh Israel - January 29, 2021The Senate is highly unlikely to act on any of his latest nominations before Trump’s tenure ends.
By Josh Israel - January 04, 2021The Biden administration could be stuck with Trump nominees confirmed before Inauguration Day.
By Josh Israel - December 08, 2020The Georgia senator slammed criticism that he’d been MIA since the Nov. 3 election, insisting he was hard at work on Capitol Hill.
By Donna Provencher - November 13, 2020So much for giving the American people a ‘voice.’
By Josh Israel - November 11, 2020Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refuses to bring up legislation dealing with police reform or the coronavirus pandemic in the Senate.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 02, 2020Sens. Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham are urging judges to retire before the 2020 election.
By Emily Singer - May 29, 2020McConnell said he thinks it’s considering giving judges the option to reverse their retirements.
By Oliver Willis - April 22, 2020Halil Suleyman Ozerden, who Trump tapped for a judicial slot on the Fifth Circuit, might not get that job because he’s not far enough right for Sen. Ted Cruz and others.
By Lisa Needham - November 13, 2019Trump’s latest judicial pick, Lawrence VanDyke, is an ideologue whose colleagues described him as ‘arrogant’ and ‘lazy’ but he’ll likely be confirmed anyway.
By Lisa Needham - October 31, 2019Justin Walker, Trump’s latest judicial nominee, has no real experience practicing law, but that won’t matter to the GOP.
By Lisa Needham - October 18, 2019Menashi served under Betsy DeVos and now works directly for Trump. He’s exactly as awful as you think he is.
By Lisa Needham - September 10, 2019Matthew Kacsmaryk hates equal rights for women and LGBTQ people, so Republicans made him a federal judge.
By Oliver Willis - June 19, 2019Cory Gardner is rubber-stamping Trump’s most extreme judicial nominees.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 17, 2019Mitch McConnell and the GOP hypocritically changed the rules so they can jam through even more of Trump’s radical judicial nominees.
By Emily Singer - April 03, 2019