President Joe Biden has had a good run of successful judicial appointments. His total of 214 ranks third on the list of most appointments in a single presidential term.
At 44, current judicial vacancies under Biden are below five of his six predecessors. But the American people just handed both parts of the appointment process—the president who nominates judges and the Senate that confirms them—to the other party.
It’s time to wrap it up.
Biden’s judicial nominees have been the most controversial in American history, receiving an average of 39 Senate votes against confirmation. That’s 77% higher than President Donald Trump’s first-term nominees and 78 times the average opposition to judicial nominees confirmed during the 20th century.
Biden’s total for judges confirmed might have been even higher if Democrats themselves had not radically changed the…
