The motivation behind this is 100% right. But we need more than more judges. We need a different *type* of judge. We will need a Biden administration to appoint diverse former public defenders and legal aid, civil rights, and similar lawyers if we’re going to see real change. https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1320881248861126663

The current courts don’t even represent the legal profession — let alone America. The traditional path to a judgeship has involved a judicial clerkship, time in a prosecutor’s office (or running it), time at a corporate firm, or all three. The result is a biased system.

Most judges represented powerful institutions — be it the government or corporations — before being appointed to the bench. Disturbingly few judges represented the other side of those cases, the people challenging corporations or the gov’t or being prosecuted by the gov’t.