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.
If ultraconservative justices are against the new rule, that’s how you know it’s working.
Close a judicial loophole and the complaints come from habitual loopholers and the people who benefited from them.
I suggest, respectfully, that if Judges Ho and Jones don’t like the new rules, they can avoid dealing with it by simply resigning. Such action would have an immediate positive effect on the reputation of the Judicial Branch.
John Oliver might be willing to send a pop-up camper their way to sweeten the deal.
Clarence will never take it, obviously, because it’s not about the van, it’s not about the money, it’s about the decorum and being an old fat black man who white dynastic powerchildren have to grovel before.
It’s about the grovelling.
James Ho is a huge POS. He’s as partisan as they get.
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Partisan judges don’t like rules that are non-partisan, who knew? 🤷🏻♂️
“Why did I go to law school if all my crooked buddies can’t choose me?”
Had a professor who liked to say “The Supreme Court hates when anyone other than the Fifth Circuit tells it what to do.” Fuck the Fifth Circuit and every one of its members. Fuck most of the District Courts therein as well.
Every time I see some batshit ruling, I’ll mumble to myself “bet it’s the 5th circuit” and I’m almost never disappointed.
For context, the Fifth circuit covers Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
It’s always economic terminology with these people, that and sports references (three strikes or w/e).
On a psychological level their choice of wording reveals that they see everything in terms of money, rather than ideals and values.
I had my family telling me killing homeless people for the theft of a propane tank is okay. So I think that trend of thought exists in much more than our governing bodies.
What I find strange is that we are not hanging people in cages outside the city gates. Because nothing else has fucking changed.
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.
it’s as though the domestic terrorists that are federalist society and it’s groomed judges are big mad that their sole reason of being of inflicting a regressionist billionaire and christian nationalist agenda on an unwilling nation got severely stifled. pity.
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My dude, these are Federal Appeals Court judges. They’re nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
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District Court judges? Who are also nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate?
The biggest flaw with the federal Judiciary is that it isn’t subject to oversight, including direct elections.
The biggest flaw with the Federal Judiciary is that the appointments are for life. Not being elected officials is a positive aspect.
Even term-limited judges can issue batshit stupid and/or illogical opinions (cough Kacsmaryk cough Alito cough) if there’s no accountability.
Elections can work, you just have to not do them the way we currently do our executive and legislative ones (you know, fairly. Not entrenching a minority party with the ability to seize power and refuse to allow any changes to be made because they’d never get elected again).
And in other news, water is wet.
