President Joe Biden on Thursday celebrated the 235 judicial confirmations accomplished during his administration, a figure that surpasses that of his predecessor, President-elect Donald Trump.
"I'm proud of the legacy that we'll leave for our nation as it relates to judges," Biden said during a press conference from the East Room of the White House.
"I really think we'll be proud of these women and men that have been appointed, and I think we're going to reestablish the safeguards that are built into the Constitution."
Nearly two-thirds of Biden's appointees are women, and a solid majority of appointees are people of color, according to The Associated Press. That includes Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Biden said the judges' backgrounds matter because they spend their days "shaping everyday lives of Americans, protecting our basic freedoms" when American institutions are in jeopardy.
"These judges will be independent, they'll be fair, and they'll be impartial. All these appointees understand the role of a judge and are committed to the rule of law, the institutional safeguards building our constitution that upholds the rights and guarantees of the Constitution," he said.
"These judges also are a vital check in the excesses of other branches of government, including Congress and the executive branch, when they overreach and run afoul of the constitutional institutional safeguards," Biden continued, adding that he was "proud of the legacy" he will leave because the judges will "continue to uphold our nation's founding principles of liberty, justice, equality and do it for decades to come."
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