Judicial appointments were supposed to be Trump's big achievement. Well, in addition to pissing off well over half of the electorate, by losing the presidency and delivering control of the Senate to the Dems -- twice -- he's now given Biden 167 ways, and counting, to neutralize those appointments. From Reuters:
Jan 10 - President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his first six new judicial nominees of 2024, including a civil rights lawyer tapped to become the first Muslim American federal judge to serve on the district court bench in the nation's capital.
Amir Ali, the president and executive director of the civil rights organization the MacArthur Justice Center, was among six diverse nominees who if confirmed by the U.S. Senate would serve as district court judges in Washington, D.C., California, Illinois, Michigan, Rhode Island, and Virginia.
Ali, who is also the director of Harvard Law School's Criminal Justice Appellate Clinic, would, if confirmed, also be the first Arab American to serve as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. That court has been flooded with cases arising out of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, by supporters of Republican former President Donald Trump.
Biden has pushed to fulfill a campaign pledge to diversify a federal bench long overrepresented by white men, former prosecutors and law firm partners.
To date, 167 of his judicial nominees have been confirmed.
