Senate confirms Mary Rowland for federal judge in Chicago: Pick of Durbin, Duckworth part of ‘Illinois deal’ – Chicago Sun-TImes

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debtsor
6 years ago

Ah, a bunch of privileged attorneys from the best law schools and largest law firms are nominated to the federal bench. All of them in their ivory towers. But that’s unimportant to our IL senatorial delegation – all they care about is whether their female judge nominee is married to a man or a woman. Ridiculous how identity politics are playing into federal judicial nominations, when really, the issue is why it’s always the same law schools and same law firms that produce federal judges. If you really want to break the cycle of privilege, start nominating judges outside the… Read more »

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