Biden Gets Serious About Packing The Courts

President Joe Biden inherited a completely broken judicial system that Trump and Mitch McConnell had packed with right wing corporate hacks. He's now working to undo that damage, and so far he's put forward dozens of nominees, with a focus on diversity in the court system. Diversity alone isn't going to solve the problems in the judiciary, but it can't hurt it either. The real positive sign is that he wants judges who spent time as public advocates in their legal career, and THAT is what we've been waiting for. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this. Link - https://thehill.com/regulation/court-... Become a member today!:    / @theringoffire   Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!:   / theringoffire   Find our merchandise at Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/rof-store Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel:    / theringoffire   Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook:   / ringoffireradio   Twitter:   / ringoffireradio   Google+: http://plus.google.com/11841583157319... Instagram:   / ringoffirenetwork   Follow more of our stories at http://www.TROFIRE.com Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. When Donald Trump was sworn in as president of the United States, he inherited a little over 100 judicial vacancies here in the United States and that included a Supreme Court seat that Mitch McConnell had been saving for Donald Trump. And over the course of four short years, Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell together got 234 judges, including three Supreme Court judges, appointed to lifetime seats on federal benches across this country, 234. We're at a point right now we're in the district court system, over 25% of those judges were appointed by Donald Trump. No other president has had that kind of reach or impact. Okay. That's how serious this is. And luckily, Joe Biden seems to understand that. So far, Joe Biden has already nominated 24 individuals for lifetime appointments on the courts here in the United States. 24 is a small number, right? Okay. It's not 234 obviously, but he is trying to do something here. And he says, they're focusing on diversity. We want some more judges of color. We want female judges. Doesn't all have to be a bunch of old white guys. Let, let's get some diversity in there and sure, diversity is great. But diversity for the sake of diversity does absolutely nothing. I mean, let's be honest about that. You know, just filling quotas isn't going to fix the rampant problems in the judicial system. But there is a little bit of hope here because not only is he looking for diverse judges, he's looking for diverse judges that also, and this is the biggest part, have a history of being public advocates, have a history of being public defenders, perhaps working in nonprofit organizations. He's actually going after the good people, folks. He's going after the kinds of people that both Pap and I here on Ring of Fire for 17 years have been saying that you have to appoint as judges. You can't keep taking these corporate lawyers who make their money defending drug companies and oil companies, and then put them as judges and expect them to rule for the people. And I can't tell you how, what a relief it is to hear that Biden is at least in some instances, trying to find some of these good people like what Pap and I have been saying they have to do for years because that's the point. That's what we need. And it's not just, you know, let's find lawyers who represented people injured by, by corporations. We need a lot of that. But the public defender part too is massive. Okay. People who went through the ranks understand what it's like to have to work with these, you know, indigent defendants, you know, people who have absolutely nothing and they may just cut them a break for that. Because we have public defenders in the United States, which again, we've done plenty of segments on this. They're overworked. They're underpaid. They don't have enough time to prep. They don't have enough public defenders in their offices and their defendants suffer as a result of that. But if we have judges who come from that system, we may just get a little bit of leniency for some of these individuals. We may be able to give them more time to prep for cases. And that will do wonders to the criminal justice system here in the United States. What Biden is doing is a good start here. We need more of them.