Trump-y GOP judges will destroy America without radical court changes

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A new king across the pond should make us think about a growing crisis of U.S. democracy: Unaccountable lifetime GOP judges are shielding Trump, stripping our basic civil rights and killing our liberty

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Trump-y GOP judges will destroy America without radical court changes | Will Bunch
A terrible decision in the crucial Trump documents case by an unqualified Trump-appointed judge spotlights a crisis for American democracy.
11:45 AM · Sep 11, 2022

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-judges-aileen-cannon-documents-20220911.html

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When Aileen Cannon — a then-39-year-old junior prosecutor with a resumé that could be charitably called flimsy — appeared before U.S. senators for her summer 2020 confirmation hearing to become a federal district court judge, she also had very little experience giving interviews.

We know this from the questionnaire that Cannon — a Colombia native whose family later escaped Fidel Castro’s Cuba for Florida — filled out for the Senate Judiciary after she was recommended for the lifetime appointment by Sen. Marco Rubio and nominated by Donald Trump. She acknowledged her only media interview had been a 2009 appearance on the wedding site The Knot — “Aileen and Josh: A Traditional Wedding in Coconut Grove” — in which the couple described how the groom’s wedding proposal during a vacation in Greece had been interrupted by a turtle.

Cannon’s somewhat stunning lack of experience or public exposure was highlighted on Twitter by GOP defector and Stand for Democracy founder Peter Vroom, who also noted that “she had never made any speeches, produced any reports, participated in any panel discussions, spoke at any conferences or written for any bar association.” The would-be judge’s writing experience was largely limited to a college internship at the El Nuevo Herald newspaper in Miami, where she covered prenatal yoga and flamenco dancing.

Yet Cannon had two huge things going for her in the eyes of Trump, Rubio, and the right-wing project to remake the federal judiciary: She was a product of their conservative grooming project, the Federalist Society, and her relative youth meant she might sit on the bench for decades. She was one of several judicial nominees rammed through the Senate on Nov. 12, 2020 — five days after TV networks called the election for President Biden, signaling that the right-wing judicial pipeline was about to get shut down.

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[DeeDeeNY]

1. 12 Democratic senators voted to confirm her

That is upsetting to say the least

[keithbvadu2]

2. Repubs/right wingers used to be against judicial activism but with the current Supreme Court makeup,

Repubs/right wingers used to be against judicial activism but with the current Supreme Court makeup, but they have gotten over that.

[canuckledragger]

3. The were never against judicial activism when they did it.

They just accused liberals of doing it as a cover for their own activities.

Projection as usual.

[Mr.Bill]

4. If we don't expand the Supreme Court,

and they take the Senate and the Presidency in 2024, they will. If you think it looks bad now, imagine another handful of Federalist Society judges on the Supreme Court.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. The billionaires behind the Federalist Society have turned the judiciary into a 5th column.

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america