From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Judges, judges everywhere. And after a year of the Senate doing almost nothing other than confirming judges, Joe Biden looks poised to beat Donald Trump's first term record for federal judicial appointments.

That as the Senate and the White House maneuver to make it harder for Donald Trump to appoint more.

Welcome to Potomac Watch and with me today to talk about all things, Judgey, our two court experts,

Colin Levy and Bill McGern, welcome to you both. Barring any last hiccups,

the Senate looks poised this week to confirm Biden's 235th judicial pick, which would put him

one judge ahead of Trump's record of 234. This has been an almost manic obsession of Senate Majority

Leader Chuck Schumers, who essentially

ignored all other Senate business of the past year to get this done and just ask any member

of the Senate, many of whom are esteemed that they didn't get votes on anything else that

they wanted to have done. But Colin, as someone who has watched the courts for a long time,

numbers do matter.

The press is also very focused on the diversity question, and Biden does leave having appointed

record numbers of judges from different categories, women, minority judges.

But also what matters is influence.

And when we look out there broadly at Biden's impact on the courts that

really matter, in particular the Supreme Court and circuit courts, appeals courts, what do you think

is legacy going to be? These are big numbers. You know, they, as you say, they surpass what Donald

Trump managed to do. And that's just a lot of

lifetime appointees. And of course, some of those are going to go on to be appointed to circuit courts

in the future as well. So his administration has made a real priority of adding diversity to the

bench. He obviously changed the courts in that regard. Katanji Brown Jackson, obviously,

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