Why the fuck is justice in this country considered to be a political objective?
There is no justice. There are billionaires.
Some potentially relevant information on the judge, Brian Miller, who refused to halt the RSLC’s defamatory attacks on Justice Goodson, per Wikipedia:
In 2007, Miller was appointed to the Arkansas Court of Appeals by Governor Mike Huckabee …
On October 16, 2007, Miller was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas … Miller was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 10, 2008, and received his commission on April 17, 2008. He became Chief Judge on July 23, 2012.
It is rumored that Miller is the favorite to replace Clarence Thomas on the US Supreme Court should he retire.
“A much better judge than Courtney Goodson just tossed her latest,
outrageous assault on the First Amendment,” David James, a spokesman for
the group, said…
…with not even a hint of malice.
Thank all the Gods/gods that Missouri doesn’t have judicial elections.
Taking into account this decision as well as those pertaining to voting rights in North Dakota and Kansas, we already have a sense of what the coming years of living with the Trump judiciary are going to be like. In other words, not pretty…
Because most states are stupid enough to elect judges.
Oh, and because justice–or at least favorable decisions–are often bought, in one way or another.
The idea of enjoining political attacks runs counter to the First Amendment, even when they are outrageous. That’s the price we pay for free speech. What is tragic is not that the court turned down this attempt to enjoin free speech, but that the courts have equated money with speech. But that is a separate issue.