Donald Trump Is Packing Courts With Total Idiots

Last week, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee released a report saying that President Donald Trump and Republicans are trying to reshape the federal judiciary by appointing judges whose only qualifications are nonexistent. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss this. Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RingofFireRadio Google+: http://plus.google.com/118415831573195648557 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ Follow more of our stories at http://www.TROFIRE.com Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com As you look at this story, there's so many sides to this story. First of all, anybody watching this that is familiar with what Obama's appointments looked like, you got to kind of begin there before you pile on completely with Republicans. Obama had, what, he had two years to make appointments, and I think he had something like 54 vacancies that they just, well, they were in la-la land for two years. And the reason that I'm so offended by that is because some of the lawyers that were kind of trying to advise Obama were telling him two things. First of all, get busy because Republicans just like Bush got busy where it came to appointments. Second of all, the appointments that Obama made were like these silk stocking, corporate lawyers who had never done anything except represented corporations. And now I'm appearing in front of those Democratic appointment, silk stocking, Covington, Burling, Jones Day judges, and they are awful. So let me tell you, there's two sides to this story. But the most obvious thing about this story is it's very apparent that the Republicans are going out of their way to appoint young, wholly unqualified judges who just have one thing in common, they're conservative. Their politics are wholly conservative, and those are the appointments that the Republicans are trying to rush through. What's your take on this? Well, I think what the Democrats missed in their report that they released ... I think it was over 100 pages. They never once talked about the fact that Republicans understand the courts better than the Democrats do because to me that is the story. Obama came in office, as you said, 54 judicial appointments wide open. In two years, with Democrats in control of the House and Senate, you could have done anything and everything. He left office 112 vacancies, and that includes that Supreme Court vacancy. And people always want to say, well, what about the obstruction? What about the filibustering? Recess appointments, you could have done that at any time when they took their August break, when they're gone longer than four days. Bush did it. Clinton even did it. Yeah, and Obama never once took advantage of that, never once took advantage of the bully pulpit as the Republicans do. Every day now, we see them talking about these Democrats aren't letting us appoint these unqualified people. He didn't do it. Well, look, the other side of this ... God, there's so many sides to this, really. This story is infuriating on so many levels, but Brett Talley, I remember the Brett Talley from Alabama. Now, this is a classic kind of republican appointee. This is a guy who was wholly owned by the NRA, made no bones about it, made it clear he's gonna rule for the NRA regardless of what the facts are. Second part of it, he was an apologist for the Ku Klux Klan. Now, that's pretty evident. That's right up in your face. But your point, the point I'm trying to make, too, is Democrats are just as bad because they don't understand the system. Obama, when he was making all these appointments ... Look, friend of mine, Howard Nations, one of the true leading trial lawyers in this country, confronted Obama about this and said, "Do you realize the people that you're appointing are corporate thugs that have come from the corporate industry. They represent corporations. They've never represented individuals." And Obama's reaction was, "Oh, my god, what's the problem with that? Aren't they gonna become fair when they become judges?" Well, no, Mr. Obama. They're not gonna become fair. Nothing changes. They're represented corporations. These are the people I'm having to appear in front of, and they are just as bad or worse than Republican appointees.