Amid headlines flooded with COVID-19 updates, The New York Times released a report detailing how Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been personally asking veteran conservative judges to retire so that President Trump can fill the vacancies before the next election. “Two-thirds of the appellate judges that have been confirmed in the Trump administration are white men — many of them carrying very extreme views against gay marriage, trying to undermine voting protections and voting rights in this country,” says Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and former head of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice during the Obama years. “They’re very young. These people will serve in these positions for a lifetime. Even as we are grappling with the enormous democracy burdens that the pandemic is causing us, let’s not lose sight of what’s happening to our federal courts.”
#DemocracyNow
Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: https://democracynow.org
Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today: https://democracynow.org/donate
FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE:
YouTube: https://youtube.com/democracynow
Facebook: https://facebook.com/democracynow
Twitter: https://twitter.com/democracynow
Instagram: https://instagram.com/democracynow
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/democracynow
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/democracy-now!-audio/id73802554
Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now | Radio Free (2020-03-21T09:21:28+00:00) How Republicans are packing federal courts with conservative extremists. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2020/03/21/how-republicans-are-packing-federal-courts-with-conservative-extremists/
Please log in to upload a file.
There are no updates yet.
Click the Upload button above to add an update.