Wrote Donald Trump, quoted in "Trump, Bashing the Federalist Society, Asserts Autonomy on Judge Picks/The president has grown increasingly angry at court rulings blocking parts of his agenda, including by judges he appointed" (NYT).
The article is by Charlie Savage, who says:
While Mr. Trump was out of power, a schism emerged between traditional legal conservatives and MAGA-style lawyers.... During the 2016 campaign, Mr. Trump had essentially made a deal with the conservative legal movement. In exchange for its support, he would outsource his judicial selections.... Throughout his first term, Mr. Trump nominated appellate judges and Supreme Court justices cut from the mold of the conservative legal movement..... This month, Mr. Trump announced the first appellate nomination of his second term, Whitney Hermandorfer... [who] appeared cut from the same cloth as his first-term selections....
But Mr. Trump’s second appellate pick, announced on Wednesday as the nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, was different: Emil Bove III, a Justice Department official and former criminal defense lawyer for Mr. Trump. Mr. Bove does not fit the mold of the sort of lawyer who has spent years frequenting Federalist Society conventions to discuss judicial restraint and originalism. But he has shown a willingness to aggressively use power in ways that Mr. Trump likes, including carrying out politically charged purges....
In naming Mr. Bove, the president put forward an openly politicized and outcome-based rationale. His nominee, he said on social media, would “do anything else that is necessary to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. Emil Bove will never let you down!”...
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Politically charged purges? Try removing Deep State actors who are firmly committed to the progressive agenda.
Harmet Dillon reports that after she was appointed as the head of the Civil Rights Division that lawyers in that department had group crying sessions.
I’ve never heard of lawyers crying. No crying in the legal profession!
I bet he can define the word: "woman"
if you want to misunderstand something read charlie savage,
this Court, enabled the fraudulent election, by not taking up Texas v US, by striking down the Article 42, they enabled the invasion, by not acting on the lawfare, attys for the president were jailed on spurious charges, the ones who were dragooned in the january 6th net, got some relief, so they
did return abortion to the states, where it belonged, but
really thats the bare minimum of what they shoud have done,
this has been because Roberts has been unwilling to do his duty, to stop these outrages, I noticed above, a whole phalanx of judges conducted these injustices against the body politic,
there was no due process, for any of those who were victimized by the invasion
Another reminder that Trump was never actually a conservative. (In a couple areas, this has been good...) But, in most ways its very bad. This is one of the bad ways.
I just illustrated, where the picks failed to conserve anything,
where they enabled progressivism to do real damage to this country,
furthermore with that silly diktat about C02, they laid the framework for the Green New Scam, Thomas and Alito have to do all the heavy lifting, because the others will show up occasionally on task
Narciso: JP Stevens was the author of that CO2 opinion.
the people that tried to put his client in prison, who were enablers of crimes against the body politics, I call that accountability, not a purge,
a purge is what the 65 project did, what nicholas Roske tried to do encouraged by Schumer,
yes, but how many signed on to that tripe
of course we can go back to the ridiculous overreach over
Guantanamo that voided more than 100 years of precedents
its striking what people get outraged about, and what they stay mute, like a basenghi,
I have a long memory for these things,
How is what Trump is doing now any different than the “result-oriented” judges Biden and other Democrats have been nominating for decades?
they should have stood up against the lockdowns, sooner, against the fraudulent 1512 bill of attainders, actually prevented this whole camarilla, by taking up Texas v US,
You say well they should be deliberate, well they were rather prompt with Kilmar Abrego,
Amusing as it is to see hundreds of Times readers suddenly defending the Federalist Society, Charlie Savage's article features wall-to-wall Bush family operatives now lying about the fact that they advised the Bushies to do just what they're opposing Trump doing now (and the Democrats do too). Ed Whelan? Really? John Yoo, who advised Bush to use the same executive tactics, now has his panties in a wad? Leonard Leo, who sold out to the worst libertarians, is suddenly a bastion of bipartisanship? How does Charlie Savage assemble this garbage without his fingers falling off?
The Federalist Society has long been in the grip of anti-Trump AEI types. I'm thrilled to see Trump finally standing up to them, and to the ABA, which is a private organization too and should have no role in advising on appointments. The ABA is heading from hard-left to radical, whether or not they approve most appointments. Both groups take money from people who abhor being tough on crime and oppose other issues Trump and the majority of Americans support.
Savage is especially enraged that Trump praised one appointee because he will advance Trump's agenda. Presidents always do this: Trump is just honest enough to say it out loud. Sorry Charlie: no comma.
"Traditional Conservatives" sold out to BushKochites, and the ABA is essentially a leftist faculty lounge. Trump is a centrist and a populist, like most Americans. The Bushites are like a David Brooks who can find Texas on a map.
'But, but judicial appointments are supposed to be bipartisan,' whines Charlie Savage. Oh, please. Like Democrats' appointees? Like law schools? Like the ABA? It's amazing how many entirely normal things Trump does are suddenly deemed abnormal by both the Leftist mob and the RINO-Kochers who finally find themselves where they belong, submitting to the American voter, noses pressed to the glass. Nobody voted for them.
thanks for bringing the receipts, Tina, oh John Yoo, who made
'torture' acceptable, I put it quotes because he followed European Court of Human Rights rulings, Ed Whelan lost me when he tried to rationalize CB Fords outright fabrications,
Why even have a judicial system now that judges at all levels including the Supreme Court are operating as super-legislators/executives in complete disregard to the existing constitution and laws? The vetting of judges is overtly based on certain specific ideological positions that guarantees they will vote reliably on those positions regardless of what the laws say. So why go through the charade? It's mucking up the system.
In fact, the judges are turning America into a feudal system with random judicial dukes and barons redefining laws as they prefer, but not just for their own dukedom. In a real feudal system, the king would just fix things by beheading the offending dukes. Now, everyone has to obey completely opposite decrees every couple of weeks.
I say we go full feudal for a while until the would-be dukes are eliminated and things can get back to a functioning republic as before
the 20th hijacker was like our maryland man, and thanks to future justice jackson in part, and our possum court, he's now back in Saudi Arabia, in senior management of Al Queda,
Let's say that on the conservative side, there are two pools of people who could get confirmed to the federal judiciary: People who are associated with FedSoc (the conservative legal establishment) and people who are not at all associated with FedSoc and are instead MAGA and yet are confirmable. How many people are in the second category? I think the answer is "hardly any". But I guess we'll find out.
Leslie, does it even bother you the least that judges ignore laws such as minimum mandatory sentencing every day of the week? Planetgeo is precisely on the mark: judges need to stop violating their constitutional duties. Perhaps this will be a splash of reality for the types who go to law school to join clubs to advance their political-legal careers instead of learning to obey separation of powers.
I didn't know that about Yoo. Thanks narciso.
..."Another reminder that Trump was never ackshually.....But, in most ways its very bad. This is one of the bad ways. "
@D.D.Driver talking about Trump being 'bad' is like Bubba Gump talking about food preparation.
our rotting shell of media, was silent against the outrages that
were visited over the last four years,
your welcome, it came from an interview in Esquire, one of the more notorious glossy blank pages, where they gave Cromwell his 15 minutes to explain himself,
Scaiia thought some state school graduate, could leaven the mix of high ivy league conjurings,
If you support the decree of tariffs based on a law that doesn’t mention the word tariff but oppose the transfer of debt to the taxpayers based on a law that doesn’t mention authorizing the President to unilaterally spend money without Congressional authority the problem is not the Federalist Society it is you.
We are now in a situation where significant factions in both parties view Constitutional order as an impediment as opposed to a feature.
The anti-Constitutionalists of both parties never fail to look beyond the moment. Just once I would like them to ponder the impact of a President of the opposition party having the same power they want their guy to have. That is how you get Argentina.
“A lady asked Dr. Franklin, Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy – A republic replied the Doctor if you can keep it.”
It is quite evident that the Juche loving commie morons prefer a monarchy.
This is the first I have heard about the negativity on Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society. Learn something every day.
Federalist Society gave us Gorsuch, ACB, and Brett. Not bad. Imagine if Hillary or SOB Joe had made the appointments.
I am one conservative who thinks worse of SOB Joe than Hillary. While I strongly disagree with Hillary's psositions, I think she has led a much more impressive life than SOB Joe.
Cheers all.
Narciso at 851 - DJT needs to kill that SOB, back channel style.
no the left runs roughshod, and the right is told to be patient,
they find the right of terrorists to be free, and citizens to be behind bars, they create this ridiculous diktat against science, with C02, I could go on, and on,
The Federalist Society performed great good deeds in saving America from all-lefty/all-the-time justice. For years it was the only even partially righty/libertarian voice in the legal profession.
But things have evolved. The first generation of the counter-revolution has to step aside. The left changed their tactics, so the right must as well.
JSM
"How is what Trump is doing now any different than the “result-oriented” judges Biden and other Democrats have been nominating for decades?"
It's NOT!!! And that's the problem. Trump governs like a proggy. The only difference is who is under the boot. It isn't better when *he* does it. This isn't tit-for-tat "they started it" bullshit. That just means the Constitution is getting torched by both sides, instead of defended by one.
He has never been a conservative. Hating immigrants does not make you conservative. He like big government. Unchecked executive authority. Giant welfare programs ($1000 Trump Babies!!!). Taking private property to give it to the Taiwanese (Foxconn.) Trump is just as big a threat to the Constitution as the proggies. He wants judges that will ignore the Constitution to advance his agenda.
I didn't know that about Yoo. Thanks narciso.
If you are referring to Narciso's comment that "Tina, oh John Yoo, who made
'torture' acceptable, I put it quotes because he followed European Court of Human Rights rulings", that is because that is a baldfaced lie. He doesn't even get the benefit of the doubt and call it bullshit. Yoo's definition of torture was contrary to any reasonable interpretation of U.S. and International Laws (including the Convention against Torture, signed by Reagan and ratified by Congress)
I'm wondering whether the "$1000 Trump babies" thing is a prelude to reducing either the federal student loan program or Social Security, down the line.
I don’t think Trump trashing Leonard Leo is going to help him with his court cases.
This is the same Federalist Society that Trump leaned on to stack the courts with his loyalists, and now he’s calling Leo a “sleazebag” because the courts won’t bend to his tariff tantrums?
Trump nominated these judges. He built this system.
Excellent. I will say that Trump was a bit slow on this. The federalist society has always been a traitorous Uniparty swamp pen full of fake originalists.
And now the traitors like Barret and Roberts and Kavanaugh are going to lose their cover.
Every time they make some stupid shit up to serve their globalist masters and ignore the constitution they are going to get called out en masse.
This also ensures that no republican can ever listen to the Federalist society again.
One of the most frustrating thing in my lifetime has been the REFUSAL of Conservative-Rightwing media and leaders of the Social conservatives to do their homework on Judges.
We hear nothing about these Appeals court/SCOTUS judges until the POTUS nominates them. And half time the Conservatives just mindlessly praise the pick and we end up with a Souter, Roberts, or even worse.
You'd think if they were serious, they'd put together a list of nominees who were 100 percent Conservative and then demand the POTUS nominate them. Instead, they just ignore the whole problem.
john mosby said...
The Federalist Society performed great good deeds in saving America from all-lefty/all-the-time justice. For years it was the only even partially righty/libertarian voice in the legal profession.
But things have evolved. The first generation of the counter-revolution has to step aside. The left changed their tactics, so the right must as well.
JSM
Garbage. They are just Bush wing democrats and DC denizens.
The only purpose of the Federalist society was to make sure Republican voters did not get what they wanted and that the Globalist Oligarchs maintained control over the key components of the economy.
People need to understand how much money the Oligarchs have made on Obamacare raping the citizenry of this country to understand why having Roberts in place to save it is important to them.
The Supreme Court has been compromised and controlled for over a century, but it will never actually interpret the constitution as long as Roberts in on the court. It will always serve DC's real masters.
The liberal/left does their homework, and they get 100 percent liberal/left judges. I cant think of a single Democrat appointed judge since Carter that turned out to conservative. I can think of numerous Republican appointed judges that have turned out to be liberals.
And IRC, Trump was the first Republican POTUS who asked nominees about Roe V. Wade because he wanted it overturned. The Bushes/Reagan would claim the subject never came up, and judging by the appointments, that seems to be the truth.
D.D. Driver: “ It's NOT!!! And that's the problem. Trump governs like a proggy. The only difference is who is under the boot. It isn't better when *he* does it.”
Sure it is! Lefties expect “others” to govern by taking two steps forward and one step back preserving their influence. Look at the lawless judges and the spineless, corrupt Congress trying to force Trump into that model. They are nation killers. Trump sees that. You don’t.
AMDG said...
If you support the decree of tariffs based on a law that doesn’t mention the word tariff but oppose the transfer of debt to the taxpayers based on a law that doesn’t mention authorizing the President to unilaterally spend money without Congressional authority the problem is not the Federalist Society it is you.
This is a stupid person shouting at the clouds.
The legislation and case law on tariffs being a presidential power goes back the the 1780's and is ironclad and deep. Every president has had this power. It was freely legislated several times by congress. It has been backed up by the courts on several occasions.
I appreciate that the "judge" are being forced out into the open. This lets us know who the traitors are.
I also find it hilarious to watch idiots like this out themselves right now because Trump.
Be wary of individuals involved with any group. And it should be the Anti-Federalist Society. The Federalists were for big government.
Tina Trent said...
Amusing as it is to see hundreds of Times readers suddenly defending the Federalist Society, Charlie Savage's article features wall-to-wall Bush family operatives now lying about the fact that they advised the Bushies to do just what they're opposing Trump doing now (and the Democrats do too). Ed Whelan? Really? John Yoo, who advised Bush to use the same executive tactics, now has his panties in a wad? Leonard Leo, who sold out to the worst libertarians, is suddenly a bastion of bipartisanship? How does Charlie Savage assemble this garbage without his fingers falling off?
They have always been traitors. They were always globalist tools.
The democrat party is just embracing them now because Trump is a threat to the globalist hegemony.
Unfortunately this is showing democrat voters that hte democrat party is in no particular order:
1. Pro war.
2. Pro Torture.
3. Anti-labor and for low wages
Remember it was Obama who pioneered the drone assassination program while he wasn't selling guns to Mexican cartels.
@Tina Trent. I'm not expressing an opinion about whether the conservative legal establishment is good, bad, or indifferent. I'm making a different point about the group of individuals who are (even remotely) confirmable to the federal judiciary. These are people who will generally be in their mid-40s to mid-50s. That means that they were in law school around 2000-2010. We'll assume that in 2000-2010, they already thought of themselves as right-of-center in some way. People who are confirmable to the federal judiciary went to Top 100 law schools (most of them to Top 50 law schools). 99% of those law schools have a FedSoc chapter. What are the odds that these individuals didn't get to know, hang around with, and become friends with the other people in their law school who were right-of-center/FedSoc types? What I'm trying to point out is that the number of people in their mid-40s to mid-50s who went to a Top 50 law school, are generally speaking confirmable, and who knew that without filling in all the details that they were center-right in their leanings when they were in law school and who somehow managed not to become pals with and somewhat enmeshed with FedSoc is vanishingly small.
Kakistocracy said...
I don’t think Trump trashing Leonard Leo is going to help him with his court cases.
This is the same Federalist Society that Trump leaned on to stack the courts with his loyalists, and now he’s calling Leo a “sleazebag” because the courts won’t bend to his tariff tantrums?
Trump nominated these judges. He built this system.
Rich of course stupidly or dishonestly misses the point.
The point is that Trump is flushing all of the globalist anti-american traitors that infested the Republican Party out into the open.
Unless a democrat admits the lock-step liberal cabal in the supreme court, they are just more propagandists.
What happened to the lawyering "profession" over the past few decades? They used to be hungry sharks looking for prey. Now, they're wimped out lefties trying to stem the tide of the people's will.
They tried to jail him on BOGUS charges, they jailed j6'ers on BOGUS charges, they jailed lawyers, they had conservatives fired, they tried to KILL HIM. I am glad that Trump realizes that the judiciary is just as much a battlefield as any house seat. The democrats have known this for years, culminating with SOROS buying attorney general seats. Let loose the dogs of judiciary war. It's time.
Speaking of the federalist society. My youtube feed is inundated the Koch bros AFP - Americans for Prosperity.. Looking at their website the "sorta" "kinda" "almost" "nearly" "possibly" get close to MAGA positions. But they are mealy mouthed. I don't truest 'em. Don't trust the eGOP federalist society either.
Political Junkie,
"Federalist Society gave us Gorsuch, ACB, and Brett. Not bad. Imagine if Hillary or SOB Joe had made the appointments."
"Better than Hillary would have appointed" is damning with the faintest of all possible praises.
Dumbest move yet. The Federalist Society has given us the Supreme Court conservative majority that at long last reversed Roe v Wade. It also kept Trump himself out of jail and in the ballot, so he could be elected president again. Without this Supremes Trump would be in jail. The Supremes have given Trump the majority of the things he has asked. The Supremes have asked Trump to follow procedure for certain things, certain big ask, and all of suden, the Federalist Society that vetted those judges, that have given him victory after victory, are now no longer useful?
There's a Spanish language saying that fits Trump to a tee. 'Lo que hace con las manos, lo desbarata con los pies'.
Trump says judges shouldn’t have the power to stop his illegal policies: “It wasn’t meant to be that way”
It was literally meant to be that way.
Lem Vibe Banditory said...
Dumbest move yet. The Federalist Society has given us the Supreme Court conservative majority that at long last reversed Roe v Wade. It also kept Trump himself out of jail and in the ballot, so he could be elected president again. Without this Supremes Trump would be in jail. The Supremes have given Trump the majority of the things he has asked. The Supremes have asked Trump to follow procedure for certain things, certain big ask, and all of suden, the Federalist Society that vetted those judges, that have given him victory after victory, are now no longer useful?
No.
The people kept Trump out of jail. I wanted them to throw Trump in jail because that would have led to a real cleaning of the Aegean stables.
As it is we are still fighting this rear guard action where federalist traitors keep leading us on with bullshit like overturning Roe but they keep things like Obamacare in place.
Notice how they never really stop the judicial nationwide TRO's. Roberts is trying to keep as many illegals in the country as possible.
The Supreme Court under Roberts only exists to stop Trump. They know they can't come out in the open but their actions are clear. Barret Kavanaugh and Roberts are traitors that were taking turns.
Now they are out in the open and everyone will be focused on them. No more bullshit. Their actions are overt and it is time to call a spade a spade.
We need to bring Obamacare back up again. That decision by Roberts was pure evil.
I had a hunch, so I looked it up: David Souter was not recommended by the Federalist Society. His nomination to the Supreme Court was largely seen as a disappointment by conservative Republicans, particularly due to his voting in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which upheld Roe v. Wade, leading to a backlash from the movement. The Federalist Society, which is known for its conservative legal movement, did not actively support his nomination or subsequent tenure on the Supreme Court.
It may not be the ideal, it could be argued, that we are relying on lifetime tenured judges to keep the country from tearing itself apart, but that's where we are. Elevating judges that could one day be nominated by Democrats to the SCOTUS is playing Russian Roulette with the future of the country Trump claims a desire to make great again.
Kakistocracy said...
Trump says judges shouldn’t have the power to stop his illegal policies: “It wasn’t meant to be that way”
It was literally meant to be that way.
Pure garbage.
People who come across our borders are foreign invaders.
There is only one person in the federal government who has the authority to deal with foreign invaders and this is spelled out clearly in Article II.
Authority to enact and implement Tariffs were granted to the President in the 1780's and that power has been expanded and defined legislatively several times since then. There are many cases in the courts that have ruled the president has this authority and presidents before Trump have executed this authority with no issues.
All that is happening now is that stupid people like Rich make a stupid appeal to authority and then pretend that the hacks they have installed in robes are judges.
It is good that this is all out in the open now.
Trump is a lame duck. You people talking as though whatever Trump does or wants is going to remain standing for ever are a bunch of dam fools.
At the end of the day there will be legal wins and legal losses for Trump.
The main problem is that Congress will not do its job. The rule by executive order is a direct result of that. When we have rule by executive order there is bound to be overstepping.
This is especially true of Trump and other left wingers who have long rejected the Constitution as the ultimate authority in governing the Republic.
I am sure that the noted Juche loving commie moron Achilles is cool with Joe Biden transferring student debt to the taxpayers because if you read a law passed in 2002 to protect servicemen called to serve from going bankrupt because of student debt in a certain way you can apply it to gender studies majors in 2022 because there is no market for their degree.
What if I told you that a judge who blocked Trump on something he wanted, turned out to have been a first term Trump appointee, NOT recommended by the Federalist Society.
Maybe Trump understands it, or maybe he doesn't, but to make it up as he goes, on judgeships, will be the most consequential decision of his administration. And it's not a matter of IF, Trump will elevate a David Souter, its only a matter of when. Suddenly, i have a desire to end this last comment with a bunch of expletives, to impress upon somebody how important I believe this is. This thing is beyond Trump. The danger has not passed. The danger posed by people who want to transform this country will never pass.
Lem Vibe Banditory said...
Trump is a lame duck. You people talking as though whatever Trump does or wants is going to remain standing for ever are a bunch of dam fools
Trump is our weapon. He is merely the latest escalation.
The people of the country have formed a broad political coalition that has realized DC is full of scum wads and frauds like the Federalist Society whose only goal is to suck money out of the country and into "Think Tanks" and NGOs and various globalist grifts.
The country has been moving in this direction since Perot in 1992.
This coalition was formalized during Trump's campaign when the JFK wing of the democrat party joined him in 2024.
Lem Vibe Banditory said...
What if I told you that a judge who blocked Trump on something he wanted, turned out to have been a first term Trump appointee, NOT recommended by the Federalist Society.
I would tell you he didn't block something Trump wanted.
He blocked something WE wanted.
Then I would tell you that these "Judges" need to fucking learn their place.
AMDG said...
I am sure that the noted Juche loving commie moron Achilles is cool with Joe Biden transferring student debt to the taxpayers because if you read a law passed in 2002 to protect servicemen called to serve from going bankrupt because of student debt in a certain way you can apply it to gender studies majors in 2022 because there is no market for their degree.
I am a member of a broad political coalition that loosely wants the US government to serve the interests of people who live, work, and contribute to our society.
You are a member of a pathetic political tribe full of sellouts and traitors nobody cares about anymore and who were really just democrats all along who serves the interests of globalist masters.
Nobody cares about you and nobody will miss you.
there was no law behind this legerdemain, thats the difference,
the Journal is sometimes criminally obtuse, we want 10 alitos and thomas,
Achilles - you are a fool who puts a foolish man ahead of the law. That makes you unAmerican. You and your ilk hate America every bit as much as the AOCs, Omars, and Talibs. You are just too dense to realize it.
BTW - 68% of Americans agree that Trump!s tariffs are retarded.
Donnie baby, some things are better left private. You don't have to tweet or telegram or truth every thought that goes through your head.
Today's message from the media is that Musk's departure leaves the administration in chaos. It doesn't, but there's no need to give support to that message with wild tweeting.
all we ask, is that the Justices be as diligent as upholding the constitution every single time, is that too extravagant a demand, apparently because they bend over backwards for criminal aliens tied to a foreign security service,
Trump is not asking the Justices to uphold the Constitution. He is asking them to bend to his will - the Constitution be damned.
Because my undergrad college, though very left wing, was too disorganized to be politically dictatorial, my introduction to compulsory political belief came in law school. The profession of law has been dominated for more than a half century by those who see law's ostensible commitment to a sort of neutrality as a useful mask for their left wing agendas. Once one side has demonstrated that they will only allow the law to work for their agendas, what on earth did they expect the other side to do when it got a chance to run the system? If all that can be done is to return to ostensible "neutrality", we will have a system that evolves in only one direction -- to the left.
The situation is so far gone that I doubt that the legal profession could be meaningfully moved to the center.
AMDG said...
Trump is not asking the Justices to uphold the Constitution. He is asking them to bend to his will - the Constitution be damned.
Where in the constitution does it say the judicial branch can interfere with how the President deals with foreign invaders?
This is a simple question. Even and idiot like you should be able to answer it.
I am also curious where in the constitution is the clause that says Harvard can have race based admission policies and is entitled to billions of taxpayer dollars.
Lazarus said...
Donnie baby, some things are better left private. You don't have to tweet or telegram or truth every thought that goes through your head.
Today's message from the media is that Musk's departure leaves the administration in chaos. It doesn't, but there's no need to give support to that message with wild tweeting.
I really am glad that Trump doesn't listen to people like you.
This is the reason he is the most popular politician in the history of our country.
the same media that looked at HKIA massacre and said ho him, as the shambling husk walked on,
Is Trump under some obligation to follow Federalist Society recommendations in appointing judges? I think he's saying exactly what he says--he doesn't trust the Federalist Society anymore. He is signaling, in his own inimitable fashion, that he's no longer going to follow their recommendations.
He may have some difficulty getting his nominees approved by Congress, however.
Lesley: I don't trust anyone who goes to law school and joins a political club.
Thirty years in politics, I've picked up a few home truths about ambition.
You didn't address my points about money trails, nor obligations. Naive or cynical? Neither are realistic.
Dude: AFP are paid Ken Doll thugs, paid to intimidate and shut down real citizen groups. They used to try to shut down or shout down speeches to which I'd been invited to keynote.
Also, Leslie, law school ratings are elitist bullshit. Confirmable by whom? In my state, a modestly-priced public law school has kicked the crap out of the bar passage rates of the public and private prestige clan for quite some time now. Do you always talk like a New Yorker cover?
Achilles is proven delusional with statements like this which have zero facts to back them up. Not only does he wish for the execution of his enemies he has no grasp on reality.
"This is the reason he is the most popular politician in the history of our country." says Achilles, without proof.
Mark said...
No person has received more votes from voters in a Presidential election.
Ever.
Trump is an ungrateful wretch. The judges and justices suggested by Mr. Leo and nominated by President Trump were far and away the most successful part of his first term in office. Period, full stop.
Bove is a dreadful candidate and if the GOP senators have any sense, they will deep six his nomination. Yes, that would be painful and invite MAGA retribution, but failure to face the problem today means that they will have to face a much bigger problem if and when Trump nominates Bove for the Supreme Court.
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