{"id":2746,"date":"2024-11-21T14:30:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T14:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bidens-judicial-nominees-roll-onward-in-the-senate\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T14:30:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T14:30:19","slug":"bidens-judicial-nominees-roll-onward-in-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bidens-judicial-nominees-roll-onward-in-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s judicial nominees roll onward in the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Democrats confirmed the Biden administration\u2019s 220th lifetime appointment to the federal judiciary on Wednesday \u2014 and are poised to add to that total as they wind down their time in Washington before Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers voted beyond midnight to end debate on a handful of other nominees. On Thursday, they\u2019ll vote to confirm Sharad Desai to be district judge for the District of Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will have half a dozen more nominees primed for final Senate approval \u2014 though the actual confirmations won\u2019t take place until after Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p><b>Of note: <\/b>Vice President-elect JD Vance was present and voted no on the latter half of these judicial moves, so he was near the Senate floor until around midnight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of excellent nominees to work through,\u201d Schumer said on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate confirmed 234 judges during Trump\u2019s first term in office, a tally Democrats and the Biden White House are hoping to eclipse during the lame duck.<\/p>\n<p>Republican absences aided Democrats in their push earlier Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) missed votes earlier in the day, while Indiana Gov.-elect and Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) was absent for the entire day. That allowed Democrats to clear judges without the tie-breaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris \u2014 who\u2019s vacationing in Hawaii \u2014 even when some nominees lost a vote from the Democratic conference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats confirmed the Biden administration\u2019s 220th lifetime appointment to the federal judiciary on Wednesday \u2014 and are poised to add to that total as they wind down their time in Washington before Thanksgiving. Lawmakers voted beyond midnight to end debate on a handful of other nominees. On Thursday, they\u2019ll vote to confirm Sharad Desai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}