Senate approves 235th judge of Biden's term, beating Trump's tally

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Come next year, Republicans will look to boost Trump's already considerable influence on the makeup of the federal judiciary in his second term.
55% : Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and the next chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Democrats showed newfound resolve on judicial confirmations.
52% : "Let me assure you, by January 20th of 2029, Trump will be bragging about getting 240 judges," Grassley said.
48% : And he got one Supreme Court appointment compared with three for Trump.
48% : "Part of the urgency from Democrats came as they watched the nation's highest court overturn abortion protections, eliminate affirmative action in higher education and weaken the federal government's ability to protect the environment, public health and workplace safety through regulations.
47% : Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., acknowledged that the sense of accomplishment for Democrats is muted somewhat knowing that Trump will have another term to continue shaping the federal judiciary.
45% : Trump will inherit nearly three dozen judicial vacancies, but that number is expected to rise because of Republican-appointed judges who held off on retirement in hopes that a Republican would return to office and pick their replacements.
21% : Rarely a week went by in the current Congress when Schumer did not tee up votes on judicial confirmations as liberal groups urged Democrats to show the same kind of urgency on judges that Republicans exhibited under Trump.
15% : "One of the consequences of the age of Trump is that it drove Democrats insane and it drove them to the extreme left, so they put people on the bench who were selected because they were extreme partisans," Cruz said.
14% : While Biden did get more district judges confirmed than Trump, he had fewer higher-tier circuit court appointments than Trump - 45 compared to 54 for Trump.

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