Chuck Grassley tells Lucy Koh, a Korean American judicial nominee in a hearing today, that her Korean background reminds him of his daughter-in-law telling him that Koreans have "a hard work ethic" and "can make a lot out of nothing."

"So I congratulate you and your people.'" Image
Video of Grassley's comments to Koh in here: huffpost.com/entry/chuck-gr…
In this same hearing, Sen. Kennedy tried/failed to cast Koh as out of touch + rich, I guess?

Kennedy: "Do you know the name of the person who cleans your office?"

Koh: "Yes, Steve is the one who takes out the garbage ... and Eva is the one who cleans in the morning about 7am."
To his credit, Kennedy didn't interrupt Koh over and over again without ever giving her a chance to talk, which he's done to so many of Biden's other judicial nominees -- many of whom happen to be women of color.

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6 Oct
Good morning! ☕️

Lots going on, but a thing that quietly slipped through last night was the Senate confirming the 4th Native American judge on the entire federal bench. huffpost.com/entry/native-a…
Lauren King, 39, was confirmed to a lifetime seat on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

Interesting vote on this one. Dems all voted for her, but so did a handful of Republicans. Including Mitch McConnell.
King is impressive in her own right.

Most recently was an attorney at the Seattle-based law firm Foster Garvey, P.C.

Served as a pro tem appellate judge for the Northwest Intertribal Court System since 2013.

Taught Federal Indian Law at the Seattle University School of Law.
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5 Oct
At last, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding hearing this morning on the need to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.

Its authorization expired 2 years ago. The Senate has failed to reauthorize it ever since.
Senate GOPers killed VAWA reauth in 2019.

They rejected a bipartisan VAWA bill that passed the House. They opposed its new protections for LGBTQ & Native victims of abuse + a gun safety provision. They also couldn't agree on their own bill.

Total fail. huffpost.com/entry/violence…
Fast forward to this year. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) wrote an op/ed in April 2021 talking about her fight to reauthorize VAWA.

It was so full of mischaracterizations and spin that it was hard to make sense of. I tried in this thread:
Read 24 tweets
4 Oct
Schumer to Dems, in new Dear Colleague letter:

"Let me be clear about the task ahead of us: we must get a bill to the President’s desk dealing with the debt limit by the end of the week. Period."
For anyone bored by talk about the debt limit: yeah, it sounds boring.

What is not boring is that Congress has until Oct. 18 to raise the debt limit, at the very latest, before the U.S. govt runs out of money. That's never happened before and would be an economic disaster.
Define economic disaster? Per a Moody’s Analytics analysis, failing to raise the debt limit in time could...

Plunge the U.S. into an immediate recession.

Cost the economy ~6M jobs.

Erase $15T -- with a T -- in household wealth.

Boost unemployment to 9%.
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21 Sep
A thing not getting much attention is that Biden just put another public defender into a lifetime seat on a powerful U.S. appeals court. That makes 4.

Huge shift from the corporate attorneys + prosecutors typically picked for these powerful jobs. huffpost.com/entry/veronica…
Biden has made this detail a real priority in his early judicial picks.

For some context: there are currently only 8 active judges within the entire U.S. appeals court system with experience as public defenders.

4 are from Biden.
Little more context on how underrepresented public defenders are on our courts:

There are currently 174 active judges on U.S. appeals courts.

8 have backgrounds as public defenders.

That's 4.6% having experience representing people in court who couldn’t afford an attorney.
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15 Sep
Gm! ☕️

ICYMI: One of Biden's nominees to a U.S. appeals court repeatedly declined to say if she thinks Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is “intellectually and morally bankrupt,” a characterization she endorsed in 2018.

Republicans went nuts. huffpost.com/entry/brett-ka…
A few notable moments from Jennifer Sung's confirmation hearing yesterday.

(1/5000)

JK (1/?)

(?/?)
Sung, a labor lawyer and former union organizer in Oregon, is up for a seat on the 9th Circuit.

Republicans took turns yesterday trying get Sung to say she did not feel this way about Kavanaugh anymore. Some made quite a show of it, esp Sen. Kennedy.
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14 Sep
Gm! ☕️

The Senate Judiciary Committee has begun its confirmation hearing for 2 of Biden's nominees to lifetime seats on federal appeals courts.

Beth Robinson, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Jennifer Sung, for the U.S. Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit
Robinson has been an associate judge on the Vermont Supreme Court since 2011.

If confirmed, she would be the first openly LGBTQ woman to serve on *any* U.S. appeals court. huffpost.com/entry/joe-bide…
Sung, a labor lawyer and former union organizer, has been a member of the Oregon Employment Relations Board since being appointed in 2017.

If confirmed, she'd be the first Asian American judge from Oregon on the 9th Circuit.
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