President Biden has transformed the federal judiciary by nominating women, nominees of color, public defenders, and civil rights lawyers to the bench at an unprecedented rate.
At the Alliance for Justice, we believe there’s an urgent area where the president must focus his attention this year: nominating diverse labor and economic justice judges.
Labor and economic justice judges are judges who’ve spent some part of their legal career representing union workers, doing legal aid work for low-income clients, or protecting consumers from corporate scams. In 2022, just 11 out of 171 circuit court judges (6%) had this experience. Our courts are stacked with lawyers who mostly represented corporations or served as prosecutors, and it shows.
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Alliance for Justice’s Economic Justice, Judges, and the Law is the comprehensive story of how our courts came to be populated by judges whose experiences have moved them to be deferential to corporate power, and the profound undemocratic effect this has had on our judicial branch. President Biden still has an opportunity this year to chart a different course and nominate judges who respect the economic rights of all of us, if he acts right now.
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