Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) criticized President Joe Biden's judicial nominees on Tuesday amid speedy confirmations in the Democratic-led Senate, questioning whether the president is sending the "best and brightest" for life tenure on the federal judiciary.

“[Recently] the White House celebrated their 100th judicial confirmation with a bizarre press release that spent less than one sentence talking about legal qualifications before devoting five paragraphs to the nominees’ demographics," McConnell said in a statement, adding that "the American people deserve the best and brightest" while "the Democrats are producing … something else.”

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The Senate minority leader argued there was an apparent "qualifications gap" for Biden's nominees, saying that out of the president's first 10 appellate judges confirmed, they had only written "an average of 14 opinions each," citing a blog report by University of Iowa College of Law Professor Derek T. Muller.

“By contrast, the first 12 appellate judges confirmed during the previous administration had written 415 majority opinions by February 2019, or 34 each, over a comparable time period," McConnell said, citing Muller's report.

McConnell's criticism comes as Biden surpassed the number of judicial confirmations by two of his predecessors through their comparative days in office last month, along with rising tensions and claims by conservative judicial advocates that some Republicans on the Democratic-majority Senate Judiciary Committee aren't fighting hard enough against Biden's nominees.

Carrie Severino, president of the conservative Judicial Crisis Network, criticized Lindsey Graham (R-SC) after he broke with every Republican on the committee to advance 12 of Biden's judicial nominees.

“If the tables were turned, it’s hard to imagine a scenario where a Democrat would break ranks like this,” Severino tweeted. Graham previously argued that Democrats' 11-10 control of the committee doesn't provide much room to stop Biden's nominees from advancing to a floor vote.

McConnell further attacked one of Biden's appeals court nominees that hasn't been scheduled for a Senate floor vote since his February confirmation hearing, in which Democratic senators even raised concerns about his role defending institutions involved in sexual misconduct scandals.

"Democrats are also trying to push forward the nomination of Michael Delaney, an attorney from New Hampshire who threatened a teenage Jane Doe victim of sexual assault that he’d fight to strip away her anonymity and make her name a national story if she and her family did not settle their civil suit against her powerful prep school before it went to trial," McConnell said.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) called Delaney's February hearing "pretty rough," and committee member Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said he "has concerns" about the nominee.

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As of March 1, Biden has 108 judicial confirmations, which also surpasses the number of confirmations made by former President George W. Bush, who had seated 103 judicial nominees by this time in his second year in office.

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