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Joe Biden’s team is planning on putting an early and serious focus on judicial appointments, a move Republicans have prided themselves for doing throughout the last two presidential administrations.
Per the Wall Street Journal:
WASHINGTON—President-elect Joe Biden in January will begin an effort to recalibrate the federal judiciary with more liberal appointees who embrace a robust judicial role in addressing national problems and protecting an evolving spectrum of individual rights, a shift from the conservative appointees under President Trump.
“Joe Biden thinks the law should be interested in protecting the little person,” said Cynthia Hogan, who served as Mr. Biden’s counsel when he was vice president and on the Senate Judiciary Committee. “Not to determine an outcome, but to say people should not be at a disadvantage because they’re working class, they’re poor, they’re Black, they’re women, they’re immigrants.”
In the final days of Donald Trump’s presidencies, the metrics that he obsesses over are going the wrong way. His approval rating, which has never been above water, is taking yet another dip.
Biden’s Favorability Rises to 55%, Trump’s Dips to 42%, per @Gallup : https://t.co/xkyxen3TAs pic.twitter.com/0CyaXOnidW
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