What’s Next for Biden’s Three Nominees to the US Tax Court

With nearly a third of the US Tax Court bench unfilled, the Senate Finance Committee will likely move quickly to vet and confirm the first batch of President Joe Biden’s picks for those seats.

Vacancies on the court’s 19-judge roster doubled to six in the past year, leaving the remaining judges reliant on special court and senior judges to pick up the slack. Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) vowed last week his panel would process the nominees in a timely way, though the process could still take several months.

“I expect there will be some measure of importance given ...