i want to go to the issues of judges
that the president now faces he's
already on a pace that is faster than
the trump
uh pace of appointments and the trump
pace turned out to be
very fast there's a lot of ground to
catch up on the federal bench
what is your reaction to that of first
11
appointees nominees that the president
has advanced
i was ecstatic great appointments
they're outstanding people i um
believe very strongly that joe biden
made a commitment
and he's keeping it he made it very
clear on the night
that he was declared the winner
he said to everybody especially to the
black community
you have always had my back and i will
have yours
and one of the best ways to have the
backs of the black community
in this country is to have a supreme
court that is diversified
have a judiciary that is diversified
with the backgrounds and experiences not
just when it comes to gender
and race but also the background
and experiences that are necessary to
allow you to stand in judgment over
people
and do right by them and i think that he
has a great crop
to pick from the justice breyer is the
most
likely supreme court justice to give up
his seat possibly this year at the end
of the
supreme court term this summer to open
up a seat
for joe biden to get someone confirmed
does this slate of judges give you a
hint
as to who he will select we know he's
already said
that it will be a black woman but do you
have any sense of who that would be
no i don't i've been reading all the
speculations
uh as many people know i've put forth a
name
that's not among the ones that were
named a few days ago uh
the ones he named are good people uh
i put forth uh another name and i think
uh michelle charles is a great uh
justice and a great judge it would make
a an outstanding justice
so he has a big uh reservoir
uh of people to pick from and i'm sure
he'll do it
uh and do it in a way that all of us
would be pleased
uh the judge childs is a federal uh
judge now appointed by president obama
uh there's something unusual about her
for the makeup of the current supreme
court and that is
that she did not go to either harvard or
yale
law school eight of the nine justices
went to harvard or yale
law school six of them
were former supreme court clerks who are
frequently taken
from schools like harvard and yale do
you think there's something there
that that needs to be changed is there
something
in that that has now narrowed this
process down to
to too small a group
well i've made it very clear uh i think
that people's backgrounds and
experiences as you know
uh back behind me is my book blessed
experiences
and i say in that book uh that we can
never be any more
no will be any less than what our
experiences allow us to be
and i do believe that having a diverse
background uh of experiences
i think uh serves you well and so
i don't have anything against uh people
who went to the uh i have elite schools
i just believe that there will be a
mistake
to determine all others unqualified
or unworthy
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