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’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