The Senate has confirmed President Joe Biden’s 100th federal judicial nominee—a major milestone in the Democrats’ mission to overhaul the judiciary in their efforts to bring “balance and excellence to the federal bench.”
In the same amount of time during their administrations, former President Donald Trump had confirmed 85 judges—it took Trump until May 2019 during his third year in office to hit the 100 mark—and former President Obama 67, The Washington Examiner reported.
“This Senate has confirmed more judges by this point in a president’s term than under either of the two previous administrations, and we’ll keep going,” Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a Twitter post on Feb. 14—one of the many he made that day….}