Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On The Senate Continuing To Confirm President Biden’s Judicial Nominees
Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on Senate Democrats continuing their work to confirm President Biden’s well-qualified judicial nominees this week including today’s vote to confirm Embry Kidd to be Circuit Court Judge for the Eleventh Circuit. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:
The Senate gavels in this week with a lot to do. Off the floor, we will keep working on government funding, the NDAA, and trying to move the ball forward on the farm bill and helping communities battered by disaster.
And on the floor, the Senate will focus this week on confirming more of President Biden’s judicial nominees.
The Majority will keep working to confirm as many of President Biden’s judicial nominees as we can before the end of the year. That will be one of the Senate’s top priorities.
We’ll begin today by voting on the confirmation of Embry Kidd to serve as a Circuit Court Judge for the Eleventh Circuit. Judge Kidd boasts an impressive legal resume and is exceptionally qualified to serve on the federal bench. I am confident he will make a great addition to the Eleventh Circuit.
If confirmed, Judge Kidd would be forty-fifth circuit court judge and the 216th federal judge confirmed to a lifetime appointment under President Biden and this Senate Democratic Majority.
The judges we’ve confirmed represent perhaps the widest range of backgrounds and experiences ever seen under any president. We have more judges that worked as public defenders, legal aid attorneys, civil rights lawyers, federal prosecutors, voting rights lawyers, and more women and people of color than we’ve ever had under one Administration.
After we vote today, we’ll keep going. Tonight, I will file on additional judges who we will move forward on the floor this week.
We also have several nominees coming out of the Judiciary Committee on Thursday, and we’ll work quickly to move them out of this chamber and onto the bench.
So, let me repeat: the Senate is going to keep prioritizing judicial and administrative confirmations this week, this month, and for the rest of this year.
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