The remarkable pace with which President Joe Biden has sought to remake the federal bench has been put into jeopardy.
WASHINGTON -- The remarkable pace with which President Joe Biden has sought to remake the federal bench has been put into jeopardy by dual threats: Democratic Senate absences and a Senate rule that gives Republicans the ability to veto district court nominees for courts in their home states.
Another blow to the Democratic judiciary overhaul came earlier this month, when Biden's choice to fill a district court vacancy in Mississippi became the second nominee to be blockaded by the Senate rule known as the blue slip tradition. "I can't consider nominees in these circumstances because a tie vote is a losing vote in committee," Durbin said.
While the president likely won't match Trump's successes reshaping the US Supreme Court, his administration has focused on the lower courts. During the Trump years, Senate Republicans confirmed 229 judges, including three justices. The Biden administration has stressed not just the quantity of judges confirmed but also how Biden has sought to bring more professional and demographic diversity to the courts.
Hyde-Smith, when announcing her opposition to Colom, had cited the support a George Soros-linked group had given to his campaign for local district attorney, as well as what she described his"opposition to legislation to protect female athletes." "Sen. Hyde-Smith is preventing the people of Mississippi from having a judge in place in a timely fashion to uphold the rule of law for her state," Jean-Pierre said, declining to weigh in directly on whether the blue slip tradition should be done away with.But as the Biden judicial push digs deeper into states where one or both of the senators are Republican, the blue slip debate will be harder to avoid.
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