The full 9th Circuit Court of Appeals declined to rehear a panel’s order allowing National Guard troops to deploy to California, prompting the dissenting judges to pen lengthy warnings about the danger the United States now faces.
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A single judge had requested the vote to rehear the case, after a panel — composed of two Trump appointees and one Biden appointee — stayed a district court order blocking the Guard’s deployment.
I love the idea of being a centrist/liberal judge in the US right now, putting on your robes in the morning, looking in the mirror and thinking “ah yes, the rule of law, something that still exists here!”, it pokes my existentialist sense of humor just right.
It is like imagining someone dutifully and self righteously bailing water out of a ship that is already on the seafloor.
I’d rather they try and pretend at least to prop up the idea that not every institution is dead, because if they don’t, they might as well actually be dead. Some part of fighting fascism is just the optics of not giving up entirely
I guess but judges are essential to lend legitimacy to all forms of government, democratic and authoritarian.
That changes how I perceive the role of “fighting” authoritarianism as a judge.
As with everything is never cut and dry eh
so what do your imagined “leftist ideal” judges do? do any exist?