The nominees are both expected to clear a critical political hurdle in the Senate, where Republicans can exercise veto power over home-state picks for the federal bench.
President Joe Biden has now nominated 170 people to federal judgeships, according to the White House, 64 percent of whom are people of color. | Evan Vucci/AP PhotoPresident Joe Biden is rolling out two new red-state picks for the federal bench — both of whom are expected to clear a critical political hurdle in the Senate.
Both picks must go through the Senate tradition known as the blue slip, which affords home-state senators effective veto power over federal district court nominees they disapprove of. That puts Biden’s judicial picks in red states in limbo unless they win the sign-off of the Republican senators who represent those states.last month amid uncertainty over whether his state’s two GOP senators would exercise their blue slip power to block him.
The new judicial picks underscore the Biden White House’s continued focus on filling vacancies on the federal bench, where major policy matters are often settled after presidents in both parties use executive orders to make decisions without congressional involvement. Trump’s overhaul of the federal judiciary left Democrats reeling; Biden’s team has kept up a healthy confirmation pace, however,during its first two years of work than Trump did during his first two years in power.
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