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With Senate majority, Biden sets his sights on the judiciary

US federal courts look quite different than they did two years ago. Since taking office, Joe Biden has made it a top priority to appoint a diverse slate of judicial nominees, who have helped change the face of the nation’s court system.

Democrats have used their narrow majority in the Senate to confirm roughly 100 of Biden’s judicial nominees – including Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the supreme court. After maintaining control

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