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handle is hein.crs/govefbv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional *.Research Service U.S. District Court Nominees Confirmed During the First Year of the Biden Presidency: Overview and Comparative Analysis January 5, 2022 This Insight provides information related to the number of U.S. district court nominees confirmed during the first calendar year of the Biden presidency (2021), as well as information about the number of such nominees confirmed during the first years of presidencies from 1953 to 2017. Additionally, this Insight provides demographic information about President Biden's confirmed nominees, as well as the nominees confirmed during the first years of the presidencies of his three immediate predecessors-Presidents Trump (2017), Obama (2009), and George W. Bush (2001). Another Insight, available here, provides similar information about U.S. circuit court nominees. U.S. District Courts U.S. district courts are the federal trial courts of general jurisdiction. These courts resolve civil disputes and handle criminal matters by determining facts and applying legal principles. There are 91 U.S. district courts established under Article III of the U.S. Constitution. Each state has at least one U.S. district court (as do the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico), while some states have as many as four district courts. Three territories of the United States-Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands-also have district courts established under Article IV of the U.S. Constitution (nominees to territorial courts serve fixed terms and are not included in the data below). Number of Confirmed Nominees President Biden had 29 U.S. district court nominees confirmed during his first calendar year in office. As shown by Figure 1, this is the third-highest number of district court nominees confirmed during the first year of a presidency since 1953. Of the 11 presidencies included in Figure 1, the greatest number of district court nominees confirmed during the first year of a presidency is 47 (in 1961 during the first year of the Kennedy presidency). Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN11835 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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