Posted on 05/23/2020 9:18:17 AM PDT by jazusamo
U.S. District Judge John McConnell is an unabashed liberal, big donor to the Democratic Party, and a longtime friend of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a far-left Democrat from the judge’s home state of Rhode Island. McConnell owes his job to Whitehouse, who asked President Barack Obama to nominate him to become a federal judge.
A recent CQ Roll Call investigation showed that McConnell gave about $500,000 to Democratic political committees before becoming a judge – more than any other judge nominated by Presidents Obama or Trump.
Why should you care? Because McConnell sits on the Committee on Codes of Conduct of the U.S. Judicial Conference. The committee sets ethical guidelines for federal judges and recently proposed barring these judges from membership in the Federalist Society, a network of conservative and libertarian law students and lawyers.
While the Committee on Codes of Conduct wants to keep federal judges from joining the Federalist Society, which does not lobby or take positions on issues, it has no problem with their membership in the liberal American Bar Association, which does.
The draft advisory opinion by the committee has been portrayed by its cheerleaders – Sen. Whitehouse being the most prominent – as a high-minded effort to remove politics from the courts. This sounds like a noble idea on its face. But the reality is that everything about the behind-the-scenes effort to implement the draft to bar judges from membership in the Federalist Society has been partisan and unseemly.
To say that Whitehouse has been obsessed with attacking the Federalist Society would be an understatement. For years he has been on a one-man mission to delegitimize the Federalist Society and its co-chairman, Leonard Leo.
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If the Constitution is upheld as the Supreme Law of the Land, the Progressive Project will gradually be dismantled, because most of it is profoundly unconstitutional.
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Another Democrat Judge? Hey, want to be a Judge? How much are you willing to pay the committee? Going price is 1/2 a Mil.. Subject to COS. HST was soooo correct! Today they pay to be part of it.
$500,000? An investment that will pay itself back in salary and benefits in less than 2 years, I’d guess.
One day there will no longer be Obama appointed judges in our courts.
To eventually dismantle progressivism, We the People must repeal the 17th Amendment. There is no other way.
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