simply don t fit a box that is considered necessary to join the bench. and one of the exciting things that president biden has done even prior to this moment is not only appoint 42 new judges in his first year in office, which was a record, but so many of them look like the united states of america, including more black women. and that s critically important for the pipeline. you know, one thing i just want to note right here, chuck, is we often look at whether or not someone has been a supreme court clerk. as part of the conversation about whether to qualify. well, 85% of white men between 2005 and 2017 alone, it is one that has been not sufficiently diverse. but that has nothing to do with who s qualified, and i think that s part of why this is such an exciting moment. and maiya, the importance of it s interesting and i know there s many people that
that s exactly what i want. but in true buyer fashion, no footnotes. no, but he enormously appreciated the privilege. it was very, very breyer and i loved it. maiya wily, before we get into the specifics of different potential nominees, this moment for women of color in the legal community. it is hard to overstate just how important and powerful and inspiring a moment this is. talking act women of color and black women in particular grossly underrespected on the bench. only 3% of federal judges are black women currently, and a big part of that is because for far too long highly qualified women of color have been overlooked or
minds comes back to the mid-90s, comes back to bill clinton and he sort of made the alips with wall street, the fist time you had this. was that the turning point? that s part of it. maiya s point as well, no organizing around the issues of economics and we intellectually embraced a deregulatory model, a free-market model. i m a cappist, i believe in free marks. but you have to unction them and how they ripple, the consequences ripple through the economy. there s where maya s point comes in. you need organiegoganizing arou. there are two realities important to lift up. and there s a new study out of the university of michigan on this. politicians have gotten public opinion wrong. they actually make the wrong judgment about where their constituents stand on issues. the polls are actually significantly better including minimum wage, right? 50% of republicans support a $9 minimum wage that the president is proposing, 70% of all polled.
use it with these 3d white products, and whiten your teeth in just 2 days. new crest 3d white toothpaste. life opens up when you do. talking about the divide between democratic strength on social issues vest where they are on economic issues. here with jerry nadler, maiya wily from the center for social inclusion, neera tanden from the center for american progress, former governor elliott spitter from new york. i want to stay on the insurgence of progressivism on the cultural front. rick pearlstein wrote this book called nixon land about the cultural politics that powered the right and the republican party basically for a generation from the late 60s, trace it from nixon, the 70s, the 80s, reagan, even with george w. bush, the start of this decade. the only break of republican