With major legislation likely behind it, the White House wants to finalize its imprint on the judiciary.
The Biden administration is sharpening its focus for the rest of this Congress, pressing Senate Democrats to beat the number of judges appointed by former President Donald Trump.
“They’re afraid President Biden is going to get beat and they won’t have any nominees,” said Sen. John Kennedy , a sentiment repeated by several Republicans on the Judiciary Committee. Forty-one current district court vacancies remain, including 25 in states with at least one Republican senator, including five in Texas, three in Missouri, three in Florida and two in Alabama.
Republicans on the Judiciary Committee say they’ve seen an uptick in the Biden administration’s interest in moving nominees. Kennedy, a Judiciary Committee Republican who has three district court vacancies in his state of Louisiana, signaled that, of late, the White House has been more willing to find consensus picks as a means of keeping confirmations going.
“They’re going through the motions of considering our suggestions and then telling us who they’re going to submit,” Tillis said. He said he had “no intention of even discussing” the district court nominees in his state until the Fourth Circuit question was resolved.
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