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handle is hein.crs/govefbw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional SResearch Service informing the Iegisltive debate since 19 4___________________ U.S. Circuit 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. circuit 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, Obama, and George W. Bush. Another Insight, available here, provides similar information about U.S. district court nominees. U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals The U.S. courts of appeals, or circuit courts, hear challenges to U.S. district court decisions and also review the decisions of many administrative agencies. The United States is divided into 12 geographic circuits, each with a U.S. court of appeals. One additional appellate court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, has specialized subject matter jurisdiction. The U.S. courts of appeals provide final decisions each year in thousands of cases. Number of Confirmed Nominees President Biden had 11 U.S. circuit court nominees confirmed during his first calendar year in office. As shown by Figure 1, this is the second-highest number of circuit court nominees confirmed during the first year of a presidency since 1953 (there were also 11 circuit court nominees confirmed during the first years of the Kennedy and Nixon presidencies). Of the 11 presidencies included in Figure 1, the greatest number of circuit court nominees confirmed during the first year of a presidency is 12 (in 2017 during the first year of the Trump presidency). The 11 circuit court nominees confirmed during the first year of the Biden presidency is above the median number of such nominees confirmed during the first year of the 11 presidencies included in the figure (with a median of 8 confirmed nominees). The relatively greater number of circuit court nominees Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN11836 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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