Trump-Appointed Judge's 'Originalist' Claim Is Absurd

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OPINION: Conservative jurisprudence has devolved into a brazen power grab, at direct odds with our democratic system of government, and the constitutional separation of powers.

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Trump-Appointed Judge’s ‘Originalist’ Claim Is Absurd
“Conservative jurisprudence has devolved into a brazen power grab.”
1:20 PM · Sep 10, 2022

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-appointed-judge-aileen-cannons-originalist-claims-are-absurd

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During her confirmation hearing to become a federal judge in July 2020, Aileen Cannon, like virtually every GOP nominee, described herself as an “originalist.” Originalists claim to be paragons of judicial restraint, devoted to limiting the scope of their rulings, thereby not veering into the role assigned to the democratically elected branches of government to make laws and decide political and social policy. But Judge Cannon’s recent ruling in Donald Trump’s case against the United States government—ordering the partial shutdown of an investigation into the purloining of national security materials by the former president who appointed her—demonstrates that conservative jurisprudence has devolved into a brazen power grab, at direct odds with our democratic system of government, and the constitutional separation of powers.

Cannon's order may ultimately be voided; but the fact that she issued it will remain as a stark warning about just how far Trump judges and other similarly minded GOP nominees—hundreds of whom have been installed, at all levels of the federal judiciary—are willing to engage in the very judicial “activism” they claim to abhor to serve radically anti-democratic goals.

In recent decades, GOP judges have (i) selected a president, (ii) remade the electoral process, including by gutting campaign finance laws, as well as the heart of the Voting Rights Act; and (iii) trashed a constitutional fundamental right generations of Americans relied upon.

Now, avowed originalist Judge Cannon, installed during the waning days of the Trump administration, has engaged in one of the most audacious acts of right wing judicial overreach to date: Directly interfering with the current president’s performance of his core, constitutionally assigned, duties to protect national security and enforce the criminal laws enacted by Congress. It is hard to imagine a more brazen act of judicial supremacy.

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[brush]

1. Well stated. Gets right to the point and deconstructs the original constructionist BS.

[TigressDem]

2. Impeach the idiot judge. nt

[Chainfire]

3. But, other than that....;)

[TNNurse]

4. If she were actually a Constitutional originalist,

she would not have voted ever or be a judge. What a fraud.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Voters must choose: democracy or theocracy

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

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[dalton99a]

6. And the fascists in black robes are whining that nobody respects them

Fascists must be resisted and deserve no respect