on friday the first ever muslim american became a federal judge in the united states. he served two tours in iraq. dean, i ve got to ask you, first off, it s still drives me nuts when we re in 2021 and we re still talking about firsts. the idea that we got the first muslim american judge in this country in 2021 is crazy and your thoughts about the level of justice that s been denied to muslim americans prior to this point. jason, it only took 243 years. i m not sure why you re making the point about it. i m so impatient. by 2150 you might have a second muslim judge. president obama did nominate a friend of mine to be a judge. mitch mcconnell never let it come up for a vote. i m not sure the gop would have confirmed a muslim judge at that time. he was a magistrate before this.
restaurants where they re picking up deliveries. so there s like a dignity and justice issue here. secondly, we have to change the rules of the game. there s the pro act in congress in terms of providing workers the right to join together. there are all the tax policy reforms that professor brown has outlined in her books. there s the range of policies. boosting unemployment insurance. the expanded child tax credit, stimulus tax checks. these are things that allow people to survive and guess what, it gives them power to say no to bad jobs which in a competitive marketplace employers should be competing for workers and, therefore, should be raising wages and offering decent benefits. want people to come to work, pay them more, treat them better. thank you so much. much appreciated. coming up later, a lot of big guests on alex whit reports. she s talking to jeremy conley and stefanie murphy.
images of black folks on screen where we re able not to necessarily see ourselves reflected in every single thing. i m a black queer person so i m seeing a lot of myself reflected in this show. the importance of this is we re able to not need to see ourselves reflected in every image and not feeling so disassociated from the content if it doesn t look like us because we re getting to see more and more of these images and pose did such a beautiful job of showing black queer people loving each other. that was the most beautiful part of pose. clay, recent polling and data and information shows us that actually the amount of lgbtq, a, represents of black and brown people has increased on television every single year for the last couple of years, but as is the case with all black people, a lot of times these images are not being created and these stories aren t being written by black people let alone black queer people. what do you think as we see more of these images, as more and more bl
of course, saying congress just has to pass a law is a little like saying in a couple of weeks in a gym i can be simone biles. although there is a bill to expand from 9 to 13 justices, it has little chance of success because you can be sure mitch mcconnell will do anything not to give president biden a chance to appoint new justices and ruin the conservative majority that mitch has worked so, so hard for. first, by stealing a supreme court seat from president biden when justice ka she a died. then by helping getting a man accused of sexual misconduct onto the bench, then by jamming through amy comey barrett s confirmation just eight days before the election of 2020. you ll remember that around barrett s confirmation the calls for the next democratic president were getting louder. he wasn t a fan of the idea of actually expanding the court and refused to come down strongly one way or another. this april he created a 36 member chamber, a commission to study possible structural changes to
begin with. the reason our institutions were able to be corrupted is because they were already weak going in. what s happening now with the biden administration refusing to enforce accountability, refusing to investigate things like trump s reaction and handling of the covid pandemic, the january 6th attack on the capitol, the fact that he was a kremlin asset, i don t think that that s necessarily going to restore faith, either domestically or globally in the u.s. as a paragon of representative democracy and justice. exactly. it occurs to me in any other country in the world that has been watching america for the last six months alone, it s like there was an attempted coup and the guy that you found responsible for it is happening out in florida and no one s been held accountable. i want to ask you this, this idea that america used to be an example of a democracy and now isn t, when was this place ever an example of democracy? when large numbers of people, especially black and brown