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In reply to the discussion: Elizabeth Warren To Obama: Stop Nominating So Many Corporatists [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)104. She is right. We need more public interest attorneys in our courts at both the state and federal
levels. Although I must add that with the current cost of law school, the fact that a person works for a corporate firm does not mean that person is conservative. It may simply mean that they are trying to pay back a huge debt and graduated at the top of their class from law school.
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Elizabeth Warren To Obama: Stop Nominating So Many Corporatists [View all]
Jesus Malverde
Feb 2014
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So theres a plethora of non corporate conservative public interest candidates out there?
quakerboy
Feb 2014
#81
She is right. We need more public interest attorneys in our courts at both the state and federal
JDPriestly
Feb 2014
#104
I wonder what EW thinks of the Sizemore, Hurley, Clinton stuff you posted yesterday?
Tarheel_Dem
Feb 2014
#3
Elizabeth Warren is on the mark. President O, should ask her for some suggestions.
Sunlei
Feb 2014
#6
But she is NOT running for you-know-what, and has in fact already endorsed you-know-who.
Scuba
Feb 2014
#11
Sure, Senator from Mass has far more influence than the Oval Office. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Scuba
Feb 2014
#23
The best President would be one dragged kicking and screaming into the job..
SomethingFishy
Feb 2014
#41
I don't think Hillary can win, and I think we lose if she does win. I like Elizabeth a lot ....
Scuba
Feb 2014
#60
Even if Clinton wins against the GOP we lose when more legislation like the TPP passes...
cascadiance
Feb 2014
#85
Why hasn't the President tried appealing to the People? Why are his appointments mostly Repukes?
Scuba
Feb 2014
#128
Senator Warren seems not to have come to grips with the fact that those who will best represent
indepat
Feb 2014
#19
This is the second time Warren has tried to put the blame on Pres Obama instead of the Senators...
Tx4obama
Feb 2014
#35
Since the Senators give the President names, does that mean he has to accept them?
neverforget
Feb 2014
#43
Bush ignored the list once and all hell broke out. He withdrew the district judge nomination, and...
Tx4obama
Feb 2014
#47
Even though the confirmation 'cloture' rules have changed all the other rules have not...
Tx4obama
Feb 2014
#52
"Seventy-one percent of the judges he nominated primarily represented corporate interests."
morningfog
Feb 2014
#88
Blame the US Senators, they're the ones that submit the list of names to the president to pick from
Tx4obama
Feb 2014
#94
For each district court seat vacancy the two US senators from that state submit a list to ...
Tx4obama
Feb 2014
#98
My understanding is the WH has more control over Appellate level than that.
morningfog
Feb 2014
#102
Probably more control at the Circuit level, but not at the district court level...
Tx4obama
Feb 2014
#103
The president is a corporatist "Moderate Republican" in his words, and his second
Doctor_J
Feb 2014
#79
He is no republican. You do realize he is for the the minimum wage increase. He is also pro-choice
lostincalifornia
Feb 2014
#111
ok, thanks for the link. I don't agree with Obama on that characterization either though. Reagan
lostincalifornia
Feb 2014
#139
Also, DADT and DOMA are gone. But Republicans want gays to be purged from the GOP. See below
Tx4obama
Feb 2014
#147
Understood. They really should have gotten rid of the filibuster in his first term, but
lostincalifornia
Feb 2014
#112
Good point. The question is would he have appointed more progressives if he had a simple majority
lostincalifornia
Feb 2014
#115
It might have been suicidal, but that is not necessarily their perspective. In fact there was a
lostincalifornia
Feb 2014
#141
Obama oughta know, as he once worked for the NY Public Interest Research Group.
alp227
Feb 2014
#106
If people don't want corporate rule, perhaps they should stop helping them achieve it.
raouldukelives
Feb 2014
#133
AFJ: Tell your Senators: Please vote for all 29 pending judicial nominees NOW
ProSense
Feb 2014
#134