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   Tony, Pretty Much (tonystark@progressivecafe.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 00:25:12 JST Tony, Pretty Much

   PSA: President Biden has so far made 166 life-tenured appointments to our federal courts. Of those, two-thirds are women and two-thirds are people of color, including Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

   Representation matters. And when you’re voting, you’re also voting for the person who’s going to fill the courts.

   Sara Hill's Confirmation to U.S. District Court Moves Forward Native American Representation in Oklahoma - Native American Rights Fund:
   https://narf.org/sara-hill-nomination/

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     Maria (mariahill@progressivecafe.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 04:08:15 JST Maria

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     • Carl Graham

     @CarlG @TonyStark

     Biden not nominating anyone to the Supreme Court is a counterfactual.

     Perhaps Clarence Thomas could find himself no longer a justice through retirement due to not wanting anyone to keep looking into his malfeasance and Biden could nominate a second in his second term despite the irregularity of stepping down while the other party's president is in power.

     https://www.whitehouse.gov/kbj/

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     Carl Graham (carlg@esq.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 04:08:17 JST Carl Graham

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     @TonyStark

     Great news, but I only hope Biden gets the chance for a bunch more appointments in the next year, especially including SCOTUS and the crazy Fifth Circuit (has 6 Trump judges compared to 2 Biden).

     Biden is averaging about 57 appointments per year, pretty close to Trump's average 59 appointments per year.

     But Trump had 3 SCOTUS appointments, and if Biden ends up with none, he will join Jimmy Carter as the only president since the 19th century with no SCOTUS appointments.

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.