Led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), a group of Senate Democrats railed against right-wing judge shopping and asked for remedies in a Monday-dated letter to the head of the civil rules committee of the Judicial Conference.
GOP corruption is rampant.
My cats agree, of course.
@Kate_Riga24 is being unduly cynical. They file in Kacsmaryk’s district because the attorneys prefer the splendors of Amarillo to the doldrums of Austin. The fact that he’s a right wing radical’s idea of a liberal judge is just an added bonus.
Of course! You can have them delivered to your doorstep, or pick them up from a designated federalist society lockbox.
And does Oscar have a white ascot marking? If he did, he’d be awfully similar to my prior furr friend.
Sorry no white ascot but Oscar will occasionally wear a designer scarf when he’s out and about.
He’s a hipster from Brooklyn afterall.
O’Connor does not get 100% of the cases filed in his division. Judge Mark Pittman, a Trump appointee who is also very conservative, is also over there in Fort Worth, so they split most of the caseload. There’s also Senior Judge Terry Means, but I think he’s only taking criminal cases since he went senior.
ETA: Ugh, I see now that the Chief Judge assigned O’Connor to hear all the cases filed in the Wichita Falls Division. Gross. It used to be split between O’Connor and Barbara Lynn.
I hope you’re satisfied, @coimmigrant. Following an epic spit-take, I had to spend five minutes cleaning coffee of my keyboard and monitor to just to write this:
(I’ve obviously been to Amarillo. In fact, too many times.)
What does Oscar have to say about no free returns? Can we get a comment, please?
These humps game the system because they are the establishment. Suicide is the only way these dumbass antebellum ideas die.
Watch them kill themselves with greed. Have another victory, god-fuckers.
Senate Dems to GOP: “We figured out your nasty plan to corrupt our judiciary.”
GOP: “Did you guys say something?” (They go back to exploiting the judiciary they’ve corrupted, with occasional breaks to give Thomas and Alito grocery bags full of cash.)
Ds need to catch up with the times. “Undermining faith in our judiciary” was McConnell stiffing Merrick Garland, years ago. Now it’s 2023, and they’ve corrupted the judiciary. Deeply, plainly, undeniably. Somebody needs to say in plain, clear speech what the GOP is doing. (Other, that is, than the estimable JM here at TPM.) Our national media has shown that it cannot, will not do it, but they will write a headline reading "Leading Senate Ds say GOP has ‘Corrupted’ judiciary. Make the national conversation about corruption, not about undermining faith. If elected Ds won’t do it, I don’t know who will
Judge shopping, by definition, is political to find a judge highly sympathetic to your political views.
The Dems should have name-checked Terry Doughty, too. I don’t know if Doughty gets 100% of the cases filed in his division, but appeals in his cases go directly to the notoriously right-wing 5th Circuit.
Not true. Most of it is to find a judge who’s highly sympathetic to your client’s case.
It’s been my experience that all cats are committed Libertarians—unless their food dishes are empty, then they’re full-on Marxists.
what a handsome - so stately in countenance
So…why would the chief judge do that? Any plausible reason besides the obvious?
New chief judge is a Dubya-era Republican, and somebody has to get the cases filed in Wichita Falls because there is no judge sitting there.
Why not distribute the load across all the judges in the district (not sure of the terminology-the next bigger unit than Wichita Falls) in a simple rota?
I would have assumed that even the partisan hacks would understand that letting plaintiffs pick their judge undermines their authority and power
