Biden wants to fill federal court seats – but he needs to win the Senate first

Trump went into overdrive on filling court seats, but the Democrats must win in January's runoff or a Republican Senate will block them at every turn

During the disastrous first presidential debate in September, Donald Trump mocked Barack Obama, and Joe Biden by extension, for leaving office with so many federal court seats unfilled.

I'll have so many judges because President Obama and him left me 128 judges to fill," Trump said, slightly inflating the 105 vacancies he inherited. When you leave office, you don't leave any judges. That's like, you just don't do that ... If you left us 128 openings, you can't be a good president.