Democrats are surprisingly confident about at least one item on President Joe Biden’s agenda: confirming judges
The Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace now-Attorney General Merrick Garland on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. | Kevin Lamarque-Pool/Getty Images.
Durbin added that he's urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to "move our judges as quickly as possible." And the party is paying attention, despite the reality that Biden came into office with fewer vacancies than the man he defeated.
The push to confirm Biden’s judges comes as the federal judiciary becomes an ever more potent political issue for the left. During the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, expanding the Supreme Court became a litmus test for candidates. And after watching then-Majority Leader McConnell process Trump’s judges at a clip that only rivaled former President Jimmy Carter’s administration, progressive activists say Democratic senators are moving more quickly than in the Obama era.
But Sen. Josh Hawley described it as a “tall order” given the anomalous number of vacancies Trump had and the need to spend floor time processing nominations. Although Jackson received bipartisan support in the Senate Judiciary Committee, only three Republicans voted for her on the floor: Sens. Susan Collins , Lisa Murkowski and Lindsey Graham . And while Jackson's confirmation hearing didn’t set off any fireworks, members of both parties acknowledge that it’s not necessarily indicative of how a Supreme Court confirmation would play out, given the stakes of the high court.
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