Trump is a virulent form of cancer on the body politic.
Wait. Do you think…? Are you saying there’s evidence that Donald Trump might possibly be a white supremacist AND a chauvinistic pig? Both at the same time??
Wait’ll the whole country hears about this! I’m sure the GOP in particular will be shocked into shame.
donnie’s just not a ’ dunker ’ …
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley says Trump is focused on qualifications and suggests that prioritizing diversity would bring politics to the bench.
“The president has delivered on his promise to nominate the best, most-qualified judges,” Gidley said. “While past presidents may have chosen to nominate activist judges with a political agenda and a history of legislating from the bench, President Trump has nominated outstanding originalist judges who respect the U.S. Constitution.”
Partisan asshole worthy of SHS.
Leonard Leo, the executive vice president of the Federalist Society who has advised Trump on judges, said the president’s judicial picks should be evaluated based on his nominations to the Supreme Court and appellate courts, given that home-state senators traditionally offer recommendations for district courts that carry significant weight when the lawmaker and the president are of the same party.
Again Leo’s lily white fingerprints are all over these nominees.
Where are the blue-slips Democrats?
Yawn…
And prioritizing unqualified, right-wing, white judicial nominees doesn’t “bring politics to the bench?”
Are you really that stupid, Hogan?
““The president has delivered on his promise to nominate the best, most-qualified judges,””
Ri-i-ight… because a 30-something white lawyer who has never been to trial (and whose wife heads up the white house council staff, uh yeah, yet more nepotism at the top?), is among 'the best most qualified…"?
That stinks to high heaven of pure, unmitigated BS. And he’s just one of many like that. Never been to trial. Never experienced firsthand what a judge’s job really is? That is the OPPOSITE of qualified. For a lifetime appointment!! He’d be on the bench another 30 years easily. No. Just no.
And this, after the GOP obstructed Obama’s picks for years, and left over 100 seats open for Trump to fill? Including one stolen SCOTUS seat? Screw them.
We need to come out in force to insure more balanced and non-partisan courts. Voting this party into power (on really questionable terms, considering election meddling, extreme gerrymandering, and an ongoing effort to suppress minority/Democratic voters), does NOT include a mandate to completely change the face of our courts for decades ahead. At least, not to change them regressively! This is the issue. It isn’t about “conservative” judges, it’s about diversity. Reflecting the general population better.
Actually, choosing judges based on their “conservative” or “liberal” leanings is already wrong in my view. How closely will they hew to the law. That’s the primary issue. NOT what their personal beliefs are (which should only very moderately guide their perspective, if at all). Judges who take the bench armed with a political agenda are NOT acting in the spirit of real justice (which is supposedly blind, with scales that stand even, right?). The problem there is that the scales of justice become pre-weighted. That can’t sustain a healthy judicial system.
I’m not onboard with the way things have gone in recent decades. Especially regards the treatment of our third co-equal branch of government, the Judicial.
“The shift could prove to be one of Trump’s most enduring legacies. These are lifetime appointments, and Trump has inherited both an unusually high number of vacancies and an aging population of judges. That puts him in position to significantly reshape the courts that decide thousands of civil rights, environmental, criminal justice and other disputes across the country. The White House has been upfront about its plans to quickly fill the seats with conservatives, and has made clear that judicial philosophy tops any concerns about shrinking racial or gender diversity.”
There it is. Good luck, everyone - good luck to my kids and my grandkids. I will be dead by the time all the mushrooms have sprouted from this shit.