The Justice Department’s frustration with right-wing judge shopping has been seeping into its briefs more and more.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1456818
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1456818
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To the legislative abyss we all trudge
As the sludge of judges won’t budge.
They reign Supreme
Enforcing extremes.
Beware the court with a Thomas-size grudge.
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There once was an asshole named Clarence;
…
that’s all I got
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The Biden DOJ is doing the best they can considering all the open corruption that the current Federal judiciary seems to engender.
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The Supreme Court, then, might be the best option available to dethrone the Texas duo.
Ummmmmm, seems that the Supreme Court is actually the final, celebratory stop on the conservative railroad back to the 1950s
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I really wish TPM would stop propagating the LIE that these are “conservative” judges. They are not. There is nothing conservative about Judges Matthew Kacsmaryk and Reed O’Connor. Nor is there anything conservative about either the 5th circuit court of appeals or the majority of the Supreme Court.
What these judges and justices are is REPUBLICAN first and only. And we need to say it.
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It is considered extremely intemperate for a litigant to call out the courts for their bullshit.
Good on DOJ for calling out these courts for their bullshit.
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The appropriate term is reactionary. They want to bring us back to the 50s - the 1750s. No rights for anyone who isn’t a property owning, white, male, Christian. All others need not apply.
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Aye but also revanchist: They want to punish unworthy sots daring to seek more.
Or one could simply accept that conservatism writ large meant this all along viz
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. – Frank Wilhoit
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May I suggest,
Who could not show forbearance
When it came to his rot,
Or the perks that he got,
From his benefactor’s indulgence.
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The tragedy is not just the quote itself, but the confusion on our part in combatting what it describes.
Too many of us make the Perfect The Enemy Of The Good.
For us, that happened in 2010, 2014 and 2016.
Judges are dependent on voters to elect politicians to install then. What idiot would fail to vote and then complain about the results?
But Her E-Mails
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I suppose when you have an intemperate court, there’s little choice but to call them out.
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I once called out Reed O’Connor for his bullshit in an email to a colleague that he eventually ordered me produce to him, and it gave me joy to know he found out exactly what I called him and why.
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Any consequences for you or your client?
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My estimation of you grows.
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Nah, he got distracted on other bugaboos.
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I sense a turn in our overall fortunes and I believe that Thomas is a part of it**.
**I do not give a flip whether Thomas is declared free from all prosecution. I remember what he did to Anita Hill…and Thomas is a very much dislikeable man…
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You got off lucky. I half expected a national injunction against you. 
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I’ll give you one other tidbit about Reed O’Connor. He’s polite, reasonable, and even-keeled when you’re in the courtroom with him. And then he gets back in chambers and fires off the craziest shit imaginable if yours happens to be a case that’s caught his ire.
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…known for judicial coharence:
for a three-hour tour,
he’d fling some manure;
For tuition? Supreme interfarence.
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