The Democratic-led Senate is poised to confirm President Biden’s 100th federal judge on, marking a milestone for the president and Majority Leader Schumer.
from the left over his role as a private lawyer representing a private school that was sued by the family of a girl who was sexually assaulted on campus.Confirming judges requires a simple majority in the Senate. Many of Biden’s judges have received some Republican support. Plenty of others have passed with only Democratic votes, earning no support from GOP senators who prefer judges with a narrower and “textualist” view of constitutional interpretation.
“The Democrats on the Judiciary Committee — I’m gonna give them credit, not a single one of them has broken with this administration on a single judge. And it’s extraordinary,” he said. “Schumer and Durbin have done this to great effect. They have made the conveyor belt on judges move, and of course, I lament that.”Asked recently if Democrats expect to top Trump’s total of 234 judges over four Biden years, Schumer said in an interview: “Yes.
Republicans don’t have the votes to stop Biden-picked judges on the floor unless they peel off at least two Democrats. But some of them want the GOP to be more aggressive in making their case against the types of judges that the president is nominating.
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