There have been six Circuit judges confirmed this year, filling all vacancies.
A TON of Clinton judges were replaced by Biden, and a number of Obama judges as well. A lot of them probably wanted to retire but didn’t during Trump’s first term. Which is another reason why they were so desperate to get Trump out in 2020.
But despite this, the ratios are still pretty much the same. For example, the 9th circuit is still 16/13 Democrat/Republican.
Obama and Biden’s crazy district judges keep getting overturned, because they’re making policy rulings (not their role) instead of law rulings.
We’ve got to get more Circuit judges confirmed to counter balance Obama/Biden. Of course its not a surprise they’re far ahead given they had 12 years between them and Trump hasn’t even had 5 years in office yet.
Not flipping a few Senators in 2022 was very damaging because it meant Biden got to have a ton more judges confirmed than he otherwise would have. We’ve gotten rid of most of the Democrat Senators from red states. The big exceptions are Arizona and Georgia. There is no reason why two red stats should send 4 Democrat Senators to Washington.