Via America’s Lawyer: Mike Papantonio and Trial Magazine Executive Editor Farron Cousins discuss how President Trump is packing our courts with pro-corporate judges who are young enough to reshape the Judiciary for the next 40 years. Then, RT Correspondent Brigida Santos joins Mike Papantonio to talk about the newly leaked documents that reveal the U.S. government secretly tracking immigration journalists, activists and lawyers. Become a member today!:
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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.
The pro corporate judges that president Trump keeps putting in the judiciary are getting younger and younger and this means that our judicial branch could be in the hands of corporatists for the next 40 to 50 years. Let me tell you, I saw, of course these stories are so rare because it's almost as if, I mean this is almost as if media doesn't understand this whole, they really don't. You and I have been talking about this story for so long that I, I mean, I can remember 15 years ago us talking about court packings taking place and that all that the, the Liberal Progressive Democrats really cared about were social issues. You know, gender issues, same sex marriage, abortion issues. And while they were paying attention to that, these, these corporatist judges were being appointed. They were typically judges who had worked for corporations for other entire career.
The only money they ever got from corporation was a, is a lawyer, was from corporations. They all, if it came down to corporation versus consumer, consumer always loses. That's the way they came up. The irony is that if you ask most trial judge, most trial lawyers who actually in front of judges right now day to day I am, for example, you'll find that they'll tell you that the Obama appointments were just as bad as the Bush appointments. The Bush appointments which were just as bad as the Reagan appointments. That Clinton appointments were just as bad as all of them for the most part. That's it. There's always obviously very important exceptions to that, but it's because these appointments always focus on social issues, not environmental or consumer issues or Wall Street versus consumer, consumer threat, theft. They never focus there. What's your take?
Right. We have a lot of judges on the bench right now that are great on social issues, but they also did come from these big corporate defense law firms and they do, Obama appointed one who actually undid his overtime rule that would have given American workers a raise. But this was also a judge that was great on social issues. And now we have these people here. The most reason one Allison Jones Rushing, 36 years old. I mean, one of the youngest ever district judges, she has been confirmed. So you assume good health because it's going to be a high paying job with great benefits. This woman can now sit on the bench for 40 to 50 years, you know, depending on health and that's just one. We've got Eric Murphy, Chad Readler, 39 years old and 46. So not only do Republicans understand the real powers in the lower courts, but they also understand how are we going to make this our legacy? Well you do that by appointing somebody who's going to sit on that bench for 30, 40, even 50 years.
The thing is, the pitiful thing is, over, I've been practicing for 36 years. I have appeared in some of, in front of some of the best federal court judges ever. Great trial judges. They know how to take an important project and move it down the road and get resolution. But those are the, those are the judges that don't come in as ideologues. They don't start off as ideologues. They usually, interestingly enough, they, they're usually trial lawyers. They start as trial lawyers. They then move to a judgeship. They're, they're trial judges, which is big difference. A trial judge is so different than an appellate judge.
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