President Biden Has Now Appointed More Black Women to the Bench Than Any President in History

     The Supreme Court, until a vacancy opens up, is stuck being a Trump-packed shithole of conservative idealogues with no concern for the law or any basic sense of ethics, in large part due to the lack of any possibility for accountability. However, 99+ percent of cases in the federal system never make it to the Supreme Court, which still leaves President Biden a lot of room to impact the personal, professional, and ideological makeup of our federal court system.

     We've already seen it play out in the past two years: more of an impact on D.C. local courts than any president in history; more Asian female federal judges than all prior presidents combined; the most Native American federal judges of any president; more black female appellate judges than all prior presidents combined; the first Muslim man and woman to serve on the federal bench; the first black female Supreme Court justice in history; more public defenders than all prior presidents combined; the U.S. district court system leaning to the left; Democratic judges outnumbering Republican ones on the federal bench; and more. 

     Today, we can report that another record has been broken. President Biden has now appointed more black women to the bench than any president in American history by tying President Obama's record of 27. However, President Obama appointed 27 black women out of 329 judges appointed over eight years. President Biden has appointed 27 black women out of just under 150 judges in two years, or about three times the rate President Obama did. President Biden is continuing to make more judicial appointments, which presents an opportunity to appoint more black women to the federal bench than all prior presidents combined.

     With control of Congress split over the next two years, confirming federal judges is the single most important job the Senate has in the 118th Congress. So much has been accomplished in two years, and the next two years could cement judicial appointments as one of the defining achievements of the Biden administration.