Supreme Court nominations are taking longer. After Justice Ginsburg’s death, what a data analysis of Supreme Court confirmations tells us.
President Franklin Roosevelt had more Supreme Court justices confirmed than any president except George Washington. President Richard Nixon had four justices confirmed in his first term, the most in one term in recent history. President Donald Trump is aiming for his third.
The number of days left matters. According to an NBC News analysis of U.S. Senate records, the number of days between a nomination and its confirmation has ballooned from an average of two weeks in the first half of the 1900s to more than two months since 2000.
.” In short, the president must nominate a choice, and the nominee must then be confirmed by the Senate.usually include an investigative stage before the hearing, public hearings, and a committee decision. Once Trump nominates an individual for consideration, that person goes through an FBI background check, and the Senate Judiciary Committee will also complete its own investigation of the nominee. Committee Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., will set the hearing timeline, and once the committee holds its hearings on the nominee, it will then vote favorably or negatively or give no recommendation and send it to the full Senate.
A speedy confirmation is not impossible, especially given that the president and the Senate majority are both of the same political party. In the time since John F. Kennedy's presidency, Democratic presidents have appointed eight justices, compared to the 15 justices confirmed for Republicans. In 1869 Congress set the number of justices at nine. Since then, President Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, set the record for the most justices nominated and confirmed .
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