Senate Democrats will look to confirm more of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominations before the end of the year and the end of his term, but the lawmakers will have to navigate familiar political hurdles and a time crunch before the president’s term ends.
The Biden administration and Senate Democrats are running virtually parallel with the pace of lifetime judicial confirmations set during the Trump administration. Biden has notched 205 of those confirmations so far — two more than Trump at this point in his presidency, according to outside groups that track judicial nominations.
The president needs to secure 29 more lifetime judicial confirmations to match the 234 such confirmations of Trump appointees. There are 33 Biden judicial nominees who are in various stages of the confirmation process, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
