Thread by @MorePerfectUS

Our justice system is in crisis.

America’s courts are stacked in favor of corporations.

If we’re going to save it, we need judges who’ve represented real people, not corporations.

@POTUS needs to name public interest lawyers to the federal bench, as @brianefallon explains.

Nearly 60% of circuit court judges were corporate law firm partners, as of 2019.

Judges with corporate backgrounds and prosecutors are more likely to rule against workers in employment lawsuits.
demandjustice.org/wp-content/upl…

Since John Roberts—a former corporate lawyer—became chief justice in 2005, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Chamber of Commerce 70% of the time.

Corporate lawyers are grossly overrepresented on the federal bench.

Only 4.2% of practicing lawyers in the U.S. are partners at Am Law 200 firms—the largest 200 U.S. firms.

But they made up 15% of Obama’s district court nominees and over 22% of his circuit court nominees

Meanwhile, not a single sitting federal appellate judge today spent the majority of their career at a nonprofit civil rights organization, as Justice Thurgood Marshall did with the NAACP.
americanprogress.org/issues/courts/…

But President Biden has said he wants to change that.

A month before taking office, he formally asked senators to recommend judges with experience as “public defenders, civil rights and legal aid attorneys, and those who represented Americans in every walk to life.”

.@WeDemandJustice is working to get all 50 Democratic Senators to publicly commit to following Biden’s request and recommending only public interest lawyers.

So far, @SenWarren, @SenMarkey, @SenatorDurbin, and @SenWhitehouse have already made this commitment