Ep. 588 - The most important part of Ketanji Brown Jackson's legal background
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
I'm all for ethnic and gender diversity, but America's courts also need an essential type of legal diversity that is woefully missing. The overwhelming majority of judges in America are former prosecutors and see the whole system of justice from the lens of mass incarceration.
That's why our organization, Grassroots Law, has fought hard for the past 18 months for Joe Biden to appoint as many former public defenders to judgeships as possible. Having that experience completely changes the way a person sees the criminal and legal system.
While I have 101 strong critiques of Joe Biden, one victory that I feel very good about is that he is appointing, for the first time in American history really, a plethora of former public defenders to essential positions. It's a big deal.
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| 0:28.6 | eligibility and teasing. |
| 0:30.7 | I want to tell you something very, very important |
| 0:34.2 | about Kintaji Brown Jackson |
| 0:36.0 | that makes her incredibly unique. |
| 0:39.4 | Now, obviously, she is a black woman |
| 0:42.6 | and the first and only black woman |
| 0:45.0 | ever nominated to the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| 0:48.8 | That's not what I'm talking about. |
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