She gives me hope. Via Talking Points Memo:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Thursday called on President Obama to nominate fewer judges who have represented corporate interests and more with backgrounds working for public interest groups.
“Power is becoming more and more concentrated on one side,” she said at an event organized by the left-leaning Alliance for Justice. “Well-financed corporate interests line up to fight for their own privileges and resist any change that would limit corporate excess.”
Warren pointed out that after the Senate voted to eliminate the filibuster for judicial nominees, it could be easier for the Senate to confirm such judges.
“[I]t’s unsurprising that the president and a majority of the Senate gravitated to nominating corporate lawyers…that most conservative senators could not object to,” she said. “We have an opportunity to…fight for something that balances the playing field in the other direction.”
Alliance for Justice released a report Thursday on the President’s judicial nominees. Seventy-one percent of the judges he nominated primarily represented corporate interests.
Until the political class decides that it’s not worth being a part of the political class nothing will change. Two or three dozen House members and a half dozen Senators have come to that conclusion and won’t run again in 2014. Warren is fighting the good fight but will never run for the presidency. Obama had no desire to run for reelection but consented after much cajoling and the guarantee that he would be kept alive. It’s only the thoroughly corrupt (or crazy people) like Hillary running for strictly personal reasons…which have nothing to do with “we the people,” who will seek the presidency. Our political system is broken beyond repair and we can thank the 1% and the massive amount of money that they pump into the system to buy our politicians for that.