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.
Trump’s SC picks have already been saying they have no authority and trump can do what he wants…
The federal court system won’t save us, because the highest authority in the federal court system will let trump do what he wants.
Federal judges will start refusing to even hear cases, pre-emptively giving up to avoid angering trump.
Its well past time for the states to start banding together without the Fed.
I’m of the opinion that all the judges with a spine need to start using the SC ruling that precedence doesn’t matter and rule how they please. Clog up the everything.
That won’t fix anything, we need more Interstate compacts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_compact
Couple states did one to replace the CDC, but we need a general one for states to defend themselves from over-reaches from Trump’s fed.
Like, I understand most citizens being ignorant of our options, but a shit ton of elected politicians should be putting these in motion. If they’re only going to be “raising awareness” they should at least be telling them about this stuff we can really be doing.
Essentially we need States to unionize.
Essentially we need States to unionize.
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?
