Senate Republicans broke a record on Wednesday for the number of appeals court judges confirmed during a president's first two years.

Senators voted 50-49 on Andrew Oldham's nomination to be a judge on the 5th Circuit, making him Trump's 23rd circuit court judge confirmed since he took office last year.

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That breaks the previous record set by President George H.W. Bush, who got 22 appeals court judges confirmed during his administration's first two years.

Republicans have rushed to confirm Trump's nominees for the key bench, letting the party shape the direction of the U.S. court system for decades.

"I think of the things that we've been able to do with this Republican government the last year and a half, the single most long-lasting, positive impact we'll be able to have on the country is the judiciary," McConnell told reporters in Kentucky late last week.

Democrats and allied outside groups have blasted Republicans' steady pace of confirming Trump's circuit court nominees.

Jake Faleschini, the director of the Federal Courts Program at the Center for American Progress, added that "Oldham is yet another young right-wing firebrand who has spent his career pushing a damaging, partisan agenda."

But Democrats are essentially powerless to stop Trump's judicial picks unless they can win GOP support.