Senate confirms 40 judges during Biden’s first year in office, the most since Reagan
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(Worthy News) – The Senate has confirmed 40 judges in the first year of President Biden’s term, the most since former President Reagan’s first year in office.
According to Schumer’s office, this year the Senate confirmed its first LGBTQ woman to serve on any of the federal circuit courts, its first Korean American woman as a federal appellate judge and first Muslim American federal judge.
By comparison, former President Trump had 18 federal judges confirmed in his first year in office and former President Obama had just 12. [ Source: The Hill (Read More…) ]
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