President Donald Trump will end 2025 behind on judicial confirmations compared to the pace of predecessor Joe Biden, but ahead of the rate Trump set during the first calendar year of his previous term in the White House.
With 53 seats, majority Republican senators had wide latitude to confirm the administration’s picks for the federal bench, filling district court seats in red states and filling key spots on influential appellate courts.
The Trump administration is set to end the 2025 calendar year with 26 lifetime judicial confirmations — six confirmations to the nation’s circuit courts and 20 to district courts, according to tallies from groups that track judicial nominations.
