Two conservative federal appeals court judges on Wednesday criticized judicial policymakers for adopting a new rule aimed at curtailing “judge shopping” by state attorneys general, activists and others who challenge government policies in courthouses where one or two sympathetic judges hear most cases.
U.S. Circuit Judges James Ho and Edith Jones of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in separate statements said the policy approved by the U.S. Judicial Conference on Tuesday was the result of political pressure and conflicted with federal law.
The rule the 26-member Judicial Conference approved was designed to curb a litigation strategy used by conservative litigants to challenge Biden administration policies, often in one-or-two judge courthouses in Texas.
It’s hierarchy. It’s hierarchy as a theory-of-everything.
Which is painfully evident in getting a judge to declare some bullshit, even if the entire rest of the judiciary disagrees, on the basis of what the law says and what words mean.
Within the loyalist worldview, a judge does not find fact or evaluate claims. A judge decides. They get to say what is true. Things are true, because a judge said them. Judges are powerful and respected and that means they get to decide what laws do, the same way you decide what’s for dinner.
These people think that getting their meteorologist on the teevee would change the weather.