Liberal ABA will no longer have special status vetting judicial nominees

Discussion in 'Politics' started by ipatent, May 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM.

  1. ipatent

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  2. mervyn

    mervyn

    this is an awesome news, first post i give you a like. however maga interpretation is always behind the taco bell.

    once he moves all his loyalists into the court, these guys/gals would do less damages to america as a whole, rather in an executive position to boss people around. and the federal judges have life time term but the pays suck, wonder if they would trade trumpcoins to supplement incomes. that is an impeachable offense.


    Trump, Bashing the Federalist Society, Asserts Autonomy on Judge Picks
    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/trump-judges-nominations.html

    Yet Mr. Trump lashed out at the Federalist Society, blaming it for bad advice on whom to appoint to judgeships. He singled out Leonard Leo, a former longtime leader of the Federalist Society who helped recommend his first-term nominees and who exemplifies the conservative legal movement.

    “I was new to Washington, and it was suggested that I use the Federalist Society as a recommending source on judges,” the president wrote. “I did so, openly and freely, but then realized that they were under the thumb of a real ‘sleazebag’ named Leonard Leo, a bad person who, in his own way, probably hates America, and obviously has his own separate ambitions.”

    Mr. Whelan said a “very conservative appellate judge” had told him that he would not retire because of concerns over whom Mr. Trump would pick as a successor. In National Review, he warned of the “danger that Bove, if confirmed, would leap to the top of Trump’s list for the next Supreme Court vacancy.”

    Professor Yoo said the purpose of the conservative legal movement was to get presidents to stop treating judicial appointments as patronage and instead advance ideological goals. If Mr. Trump deviated from that path, he cautioned, the president risked the revolt President George W. Bush faced when he tried to appoint his friend and the White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court two decades ago. Mr. Bush ultimately backed down.

    No matter the shared goals of the conservative legal movement, Professor Yoo added, its members had a limit.

    He said they would not support “him calling for the impeachment of judges or wanting to appoint judges who are not the best and the brightest, but instead are people getting personal rewards from the president — which is how it was before the Federalist Society.”
     
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  3. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading


    Trump has filled hardly any of his 40+ judicial vacancies because after leoparding Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society he has no pipeline of nominees and he's running out of remotely "qualified" sycophants.

    George Conway Floats Theory on Why Trump Is Slow To Nominate Judges This Time Around
    https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/g...-is-slow-to-nominate-judges-this-time-around/
     
  4. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading