May 5, 2021

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Senators Must Fight To Confirm Biden’s Judges [[link removed]]

BY NAN ARON | For four years, President Trump and Senate Republicans stacked the court with unqualified nominees with egregiously conservative records who were mostly white men. With his first slate of judicial nominees—who appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday—President Biden has already modeled, with dramatic contrast, a commitment to adding demographic and professional diversity to our courts. We look forward to senators following suit in their future nominee recommendations, but we are also counting on all Democratic senators to do what it takes to convert all of these nominees from names on a list into judges in robes.

We are confident that as Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) will waste no time scheduling hearings to advance these nominees. We are confident that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will prioritize floor votes with the same haste as his predecessor. We are confident these judges will be confirmed, but we still need all of the senators to fight to ensure that happens.

Senate Democrats have a huge role to play in highlighting the records and qualifications of Biden’s distinguished nominees—to show voters what it can look like when our courts actually resemble the public they serve. (To read the full article, click here. [[link removed]])

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