Mississippi Judge Carlton Reeves likens Trump attack on judiciary to KKK, Citizens Council

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Source: Clarion Ledger


Mississippi federal Judge Carlton Reeves in a speech in Virginia assailed the Trump administration for lack of diversity in judicial appointments and likened President Trump's attacks on the judiciary to tactics used by the Ku Klux Klan and segregationists in the Jim Crow era.

Reeves, who has ruled on some of the state’s biggest legal cases, spoke Thursday at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he accepted this year's Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law award from his alma mater.

. . . BuzzFeed News reports Reeves, an African American, quoted President Donald Trump's tweets and public comments about judges and the courts (the written version obtained by BuzzFeed includes footnotes making clear Reeves is referring to Trump tweets) and blasted the lack of diversity among Trump's judicial nominees.

"When politicians attack courts as 'dangerous,' 'political,' and guilty of 'egregious overreach,' you can hear the Klan’s lawyers, assailing officers of the court across the South. When leaders chastise people for merely 'using the courts,' you can hear the Citizens Council, hammering up the names of black petitioners in Yazoo City," Reeves said, quoting Trump.



Read more: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/12/mississippi-judge-carlton-reeves-trump-judiciary-attacks-like-kkk/3448438002/

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Right on.

Video of speech

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017538394

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. Kick

[Progressive Jones]

2. K & R ! Important article! nt

[Iumberto]

3. There are smart judges

Even in Mississippi.

[liberaltrucker]

4. Hope he has bodyguards

[okaawhatever]

5. Of course, he has just killed any chance for an appointment to a higher court although he is clearly

more qualified than most judges.

[diva77]

6. K & frickin' R

[riversedge]

7. More sitting Judges need to publicly speak out.