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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Democrats' Final Judicial Push

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

A blizzard of federal judicial confirmations by Chuck Schumer, “unretirements,” and a possible presidential veto are all part of a plan to keep Donald Trump from appointing judges himself. Despite claims it is the President-elect who is upending norms, Democrats are busy breaking precedents when it comes to the judicial system. This as Joe Biden nears breaking Mr. Trump's first-term record for judicial confirmations.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

0:43.8

Judges, judges everywhere.

0:45.7

And after a year of the Senate doing almost nothing other than confirming judges, Joe Biden

0:51.2

looks poised to beat Donald Trump's first term record for federal judicial

0:55.8

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

1:01.4

to appoint more. Welcome to Potomac Watch and with me today to talk about all things judgey.

1:07.5

Our two court experts, Colin Levy and Bill McGern, welcome to you both. Barring any last

1:13.1

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

1:20.2

one judge ahead of Trump's record of 234. This has been an almost manic obsession of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumers, who essentially

1:30.4

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

1:35.8

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

1:39.7

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

1:46.1

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

1:52.2

record numbers of judges from different categories, women, minority judges. But also what matters

1:59.2

is influence. And when we look out there broadly at Biden's

2:04.8

impact on the courts that really matter, in particular the Supreme Court and Circuit Courts,

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