Sahil Kapur

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

Under-appreciated part of KBJ nomination: White House’s goal for the courts (as WH counsel Dana Remus told senators early) is not just demographic diversity but professional diversity—i.e. more public defenders and civil rights lawyers—as reflected in Biden lower court picks too. — PolitiTweet.org

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

White House embraced a view percolating in Dem/liberal circles that corporate lawyers and prosecutors are over-represented in courts and more should have other backgrounds. One reason KBJ was picked early for DC Circ—now SCOTUS—is she met personal & experiential diversity goals. — PolitiTweet.org