The Biden campaign is making a big bet on voters waking up to how much President Joe Biden has accomplished, especially how much he has transformed the judiciary.

His judges elevate public defenders, voting rights lawyers, and union organizers, plus a record number of women, people of color, the first Muslim American with a life-tenured appointment, the first Navajo Nation federal judge—and, of course, the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, the daughter of two public school teachers.

Biden-appointed judges still trail, numerically, behind Trump-appointed Federalist Society conservatives—166 to 187 at this point in their presidencies—but are nonetheless his “greatest and most lasting achievements,” says Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) in an opinion piece penned for the National Newspapers Association (NNPA), the trade association for the Black press.

Clyburn’s strong words are the opening salvo in what promises to be an all-out campaign making the case for Biden to Black voters and young people of color. These voters are the key to Biden’s re-election in 2024—or his defeat at the hands of his likely opponent, Donald Trump.

More than any other political figure, Clyburn helped elect Biden, endorsing him in the pivotal South Carolina primary and pushing him to clarify his promise to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court. Now the veteran South Carolina legislator is leading the charge to make the case to skeptical voters that Biden has delivered, contrary to the........

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