Originally published at: ‘To Terrorize Americans Into Quiescence’: Reagan Judge Excoriates Trump - TPM – Talking Points Memo
At least one judge gets it. U.S. District Judge William Young for the District of Massachusetts, a Ronald Reagan appointee, accused the Trump administration in a lengthy opinion on Tuesday of a sweeping campaign to curtail political freedoms in the United States. It extends from attacks on law firms, to ICE agents making themselves unidentifiable…
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More decisions like this, please. Make the Supreme Court spell out just how craven they are … no wonder why they hide behind unsigned decisions on the shadow docket.
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Candidate for the ‘shadow docket’ to rule for Trump?
The SCOTUS Republican 6 are not serious jurists, they are enablers and tools of partisanship, for unrestrained power of Trump/Republican objectives over democracy. The best remaining jurists in the federal court system, like this Reagan appointed judge, are year by year retiring, and being replaced by right wing partisans like ‘the 6’.
The 6 thought they had dispensed with abortion, ‘send it to the states’. They did not foresee abortion as medical care, often emergency life saving, but a political football they could hand off to the states and be done with. That ‘easy’ way out led to legislative and medical chaos in states, as neither doctors, women or courts knew just what rights women have to privacy and control of their medical care. Now ‘abortion pills’ are being legislatively gamed, they are like ‘fugitive slaves’ … southern states want to force ‘free’ states to enforce their laws banning the pills.
The 6 punted on gerrymandering, saying leave it to the political process. We are facing a tsunami of redistricting that has no end in sight, except the rigging of district lines, and the undermining of the right to have your vote count.
Expect ‘the 6’ to unleash chaos with the clearly unconstitutional Trump order on birthright citizenship.
A ruling creating a fragmentation and mass denial of rights. A quandary of expanding uncertainty, who qualifies for an unchallenged right of citizenship? Is it different in Texas than California? Trump will call it a ‘great victory’. Opening the floodgates for partisan political and legislative chicanery … rules on parental documentation, genetic testing and genealogy tracing to decide citizenship, or statelessness and deportation.
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This judge is exactly right, and I’m glad he really spelled it out.
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Sounds like the woke maunderings of a radical left lunatic jurist to me. Oh, wait, Reagan appointee? Odd how the luster seems to have faded from Saint Ronnie recently. this pack of soulless numbskulls would have Reagan in the dock to answer for his suspicious union activities iin the late 40’s.
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No.
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Courage is contagious. Or simply, humans don’t like to go it alone. Every opinion like this emboldens another.
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Too bad Young does not sit on the big bench.
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This is how the formerly Supreme Court masks itself. Same as ICE.
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One early executive order, Young wrote, “blend[ed] legally protected speech and unprotected speech” around anti-Semitism.
Brilliant catch.
Use anti-semitism or any made-up “ism” around any right, and Trump’ll have ICE go squelch that right. Yeah, like the video game. Win a night in the White House Ballroom.
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That is the hell of it, and I think Field Marshall Stephen Miller understands that fact. In fact, I think the whole regime is counting on it.
*without revealing their own SCOTUS corruption *
Certainly is the beginning of the end of our nation when Scotus allows cheating like this.
I appreciate that you wrote this.
And I deeply appreciate the article.
Great job, Josh Kovensky!
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I’m not a lawyer, but I too am guessing that a 151 page decision cites a lot of legal reasoning and precedent.
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Oh yeah! Well, Charlie Kirk would want it this way!
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Sounds like a foundation for a political cartoon right there. Good catch, a great analogy.
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Use it wrong, and die in South Sudan.
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That’s a great idea for a political cartoon image.
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