One neat feature of America for the rest of your lives is that, when you go to federal court, a coin will be flipped to see if your judge is an experienced civil rights lawyer or some right-wing weirdo who barely practiced law and worked at a slush fund for a creepy billionaire.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/biden-faces-tougher-road-judicial-appointments-after-progressive-picks-2023-07-11/
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@maxkennerly I feel like that was always true, but now we've been properly informed of how fucked the system is.
@LouisIngenthron @maxkennerly No, not really always true, because in the past all judicial appointments had to overcome the filibuster, so there was a ton of incentive to nominate moderates. That all changed when McConnell decided to block any and all nominees to the point where Harry Reid had to remove the filibuster just to make sure the courts weren't severely short on judges.