Trump Has Made His First Round of Judicial Picks—And They’re Terrifying

POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Saturday, May 10, 2025 00:31
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6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, May 9, 2025 11:10 PM

This may just be my favorite article since the election yet....

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-has-made-his-first-round
-of-judicial-picks-and-they-re-terrifying/ar-AA1EpcC8

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The appointments—which include an attorney who helped steer a major anti-trans case—are as much about the failures of the Democrats as the ruthlessness of Republicans.

Donald Trump unleashed his first round of judicial nominees over the past week: four district court appointments and one appellate judge. Trump made 234 judicial appointments during his first term. He’ll now have the opportunity to make hundreds more, and we can be sure that the worst is yet to come.

The district court appointments are all from Missouri, and they’ll serve as trial judges there. They’re all reliable Republicans, all litigators, and two of them have been working for the Republican Missouri attorney general. I’m sure they’ll do horrible things to the rights of anybody who winds up in their courtrooms, unless they’re white, male, and straight. The fact that they’re practicing litigators, instead of law professors created in a Federalist Society lab experiment, is at least notable. Whether Trump continues down this track or falls back on standard-issue Leonard Leo acolytes is an issue that bears watching.

The nominee who should really give pause to liberals—along with anyone who wishes the Democratic Party would fight harder for control of the courts—is Trump’s pick for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals: Whitney Hermandorfer. If confirmed, she’ll replace Jane Branstetter Stranch, an Obama appointee who took senior status last year, pending confirmation of her successor.

Joe Biden did indeed do that. He tapped Karla Campbell, one of Stranch’s former clerks. But the Senate, controlled then by Democrats, refused to confirm her. I have no idea why. Campbell, a white woman who worked for the Peace Corps and the Department of Interior in addition to her legal work, was as inoffensive a pick for a circuit judge as you could reasonably get. Republicans were playing hardball with all of Biden’s judicial nominees by the end, but there was no objective reason for the Democratically controlled Senate to capitulate to the minority party.

But capitulate they did. Campbell’s nomination was scuttled as part of a gross “deal” engineered by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer in the lame duck session after the election. Republicans agreed to drop their objections to a number of district court appointments while Democrats agreed to withdraw the four circuit court judges awaiting Senate confirmation. The deal allowed Joe Biden to say that he appointed 235 judges to the federal bench during his term, one more than Trump. To be clear, I would have taken four circuit judges over 12 trial judges any day, and that’s even while accepting the false choice premise that the majority party couldn’t have confirmed all 16 of the judges their Democratic president nominated. But my “deal” wouldn’t have given Biden the bigger number of total appointments. I can only assume that some Democrats think 235 appointments was a “victory” since some Democrats think this is all a freaking game and don’t know where power actually lies in the federal judicial system.

Why did they do that? YOU CONDITIONED THEM TO DO THAT!!!!

That's a media problem. You've dumbed down your audience who is too stupid to know the with watered down bullshit stats and cherry-picked polls that often lead to the opposite outcome. More than 75% of people who pass around your articles never read anything beyond the headline.

All that some dumb shit like Ted cares about is being able to say "I told you so" or "I'm better than you" when that headline came out yelling victory from on high when Biden* replaced one more judge than Trump did when he saw that headline that morning.

And with the memory the idiots in the media and the Democratic Party have, you'd better check your own article history, Elie Mystal, and make sure you wer

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, May 10, 2025 12:11 AM

more identity politics

grown big physical men putting on a dress and beating the crap out of woman in sports

and remember what was pushed? Nuke Waste disposal nutjob dismissed by the Office of Nuclear Energy after being charged with luggage theft on three occasions

Samuel Brinton

crazy Lesbo Gay queers blabbing at Google

the nutjob perverted criminal charged with felony theft after allegedly stealing a woman's suitcase

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, May 10, 2025 12:31 AM

That's the future of the Democratic Party if people like Ted don't stop pretending that they're not Democrats and they don't take some responsibility and keep the lunatics from taking over.

Ted's only choices for President in 2028 are going to be Vance and AOC or some pink haired weirdo with pronouns.

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