Time Running Out to Confirm Remaining Biden Judicial Picks (2)

President Joe Biden’s timeline for appointing judges to the federal bench is shortening amid the pressures of an election year and a narrowly divided Senate.

Only eight weeks of the session remain for Senate Democrats to confirm over 30 judicial nominees—including six appellate picks—and continue Biden’s efforts to remake the racial, gender and professional diversity of the judiciary. He’s made 205 life-time appointments so far.

“The White House has done its job in nominating and putting people forward,” said Nick Xenakis, former chief counsel for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and general counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee, who’s now of ...