The clock is ticking for the White House and Democrats to fill 119 current and future judicial vacancies (more than half of which don’t have nominees) before the midterm elections in November, when Republicans could take control of the Senate.

And progressive groups are raising alarm bells over the pace at which the Biden administration and Senate Judiciary Committee are filling those seats, given the looming deadline. A June 21 letter that more than two dozen organizations signed, urged the president to “do whatever it takes to fill” every vacancy.