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President Joe Biden has announced six new judicial nominees, who will be among the first nominees sent to the Senate this year once the new Congressional session begins.
The Biden administration looks to continue to reshape the federal courts during the final two years of this presidential term as Democrats remain in the majority in the Senate.
“These choices also continue to fulfill the President’s promise to ensure that the nation’s courts reflect the diversity that is one of our greatest assets as a country—both in terms of personal and professional backgrounds,” the White House said in a statement.
This will be President Biden’s twenty-eighth round of nominees for federal judicial positions, bringing the number of announced federal judicial nominees to 150.
Biden has won confirmation of the most lower court judges for the first year of a presidency since the Kennedy Administration.
The new nominees are:
- Matthew P. Brookman for the Southern District of Indiana
- Michael E. Farbiarz for the District of New Jersey
- Robert Kirsch for the District of New Jersey
- Marian Gaston for the Southern District of California
- Wesley Hsu for the Central District of California
- Mónica Ramírez Almadani for the Central District of California
From the Associated Press:
So far, 97 lifetime federal judges have been confirmed under Biden, a figure that outpaces both Trump (85) and Barack Obama (62) at this point in their presidencies, according to data from the White House and the office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. D-N.Y. The 97 from the Biden presidency includes Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson,that court’s first Black woman, as well as 28 circuit court judges and 68 district court judges.
It’s a particularly meaningful achievement for Biden, a former Judiciary Committee chairman himself, and for White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, who was chief counsel for Biden on that committee and a lawyer who worked on judicial nominations in the Clinton White House.
“With all due respect to my predecessors, I’m sure this is a higher priority for me,” said Klain, who meets weekly with the judicial nominations team. But, referring to Biden, Klain added: “The fact that he makes it such a priority, makes it a big priority for me.”
