Democrats have new advantages in Biden’s push on judges – but one big question lingers

When the Senate Judiciary Committee meets Thursday to vote on another slate of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees, Democrats will be benefiting from more than their two additional years of Senate control.

Democrats – with the expansion of their majority in the midterms to a 51-49 margin – have gained new advantages in their remaking of the federal bench that they didn’t have during the first half of Biden’s administration. Among them, soon having a clear majority on the Judiciary Committee – rather than the previous even split – that will limit the ability of Senate Republicans to slow the pace of confirmations.