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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Trump Judge's Tantrum at Stanford Law Was Part of a Bigger Plan
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Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan went to Stanford Law School looking for a fight, and he got one. The ultraconservative judge, a Donald Trump nominee, ostensibly visited the campus on Thursday to talk about COVID, guns, and Twitter at an event sponsored by the Stanford Federalist Society. But once in the classroom, he immediately faced protesters who shouted questions about his hostility to civil rights, especially LGBTQ equality. Duncan came prepared, striding into the room with his camera out to film the event so he could make a record of their demonstration. After an administrator and a student leader quieted the protesters, the judge skipped his speech and moved directly to Q&A. He then insulted various students (you are an appalling idiot, the judge told one) while refusing to engage with their questions. After departing, the judge embarked upon a conservative media tour, declaring that the coddled law students behaved like dogshit and urging Stanford to discipline them.
Duncan got the attention he so obviously wanted, drawing instant support from GOP senators and Fox News. He emerged as a folk hero on the right, the audacious judge who punched back at crybullies on the left who tried to silence his free speech. Yes, his behavior was injudicious; that was the point. The judge has likely concluded that conducting himself like a truculent provocateur will increase his odds of advancing to the Supreme Court under a future Republican president.
This calculation is perfectly rational. Duncan is far from the only Trump nominee who is currently auditioning for SCOTUS. At Stanford Law, the judge saw an opportunity to brandish his demagogic bona fides. Nobody should be surprised that he ran with it.
Duncan got the attention he so obviously wanted, drawing instant support from GOP senators and Fox News. He emerged as a folk hero on the right, the audacious judge who punched back at crybullies on the left who tried to silence his free speech. Yes, his behavior was injudicious; that was the point. The judge has likely concluded that conducting himself like a truculent provocateur will increase his odds of advancing to the Supreme Court under a future Republican president.
This calculation is perfectly rational. Duncan is far from the only Trump nominee who is currently auditioning for SCOTUS. At Stanford Law, the judge saw an opportunity to brandish his demagogic bona fides. Nobody should be surprised that he ran with it.
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A Trump Judge's Tantrum at Stanford Law Was Part of a Bigger Plan (Original Post)
In It to Win It
Mar 2023
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judge Stuart Kyle Duncan is a bully and sounds like the "teacher" I just read about here
MagickMuffin
Mar 2023
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MyOwnPeace
(16,951 posts)1. Yet another fine F**king we got from tRump.......
and don't forget - Moscow Mitch McTurtle helped railroad all of these people through!!!
Fullduplexxx
(7,878 posts)2. He should have been pelted with 🍅
MagickMuffin
(15,976 posts)3. judge Stuart Kyle Duncan is a bully and sounds like the "teacher" I just read about here
Unfit for the bench!
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,829 posts)4. This is how one auditions for a slot on the SCOTUS
We need to win and not let a GOP hack be able to nominate this asshole to the SCOTUS