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Did Obama win the judicial wars?
Politico ^ | 8/8/16 | Michael Grunwald

Posted on 03/16/2025 11:51:57 AM PDT by DallasBiff

President Barack Obama was fired up.

He had just revealed his Supreme Court nominee in the Rose Garden, and as he began his next meeting with progressive legal activists in the Roosevelt Room, he couldn’t stop rhapsodizing about his choice to cap his judicial legacy. Merrick Garland was Obama’s kind of judge—a meritocrat with two Harvard degrees who had served 18 years on America’s second-highest court; a mensch who tutored inner-city kids and had just wept while discussing his family; and a moderate cited by Republican leaders as the kind of non-controversial, non-ideological judge Obama ought to pick for the Court.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: judges; obama; trump
I know the article is from almost 9 years ago, but relevant for today because the Obama "judges" who are trying to block Trump in every way.

Trump should ignore them.

1 posted on 03/16/2025 11:51:57 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Traitor Roberts’ fault.


2 posted on 03/16/2025 11:53:28 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: DallasBiff

Hussein might have won the battle in those days but he will never win the war.


3 posted on 03/16/2025 11:59:29 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: DallasBiff

“Merrick Garland was a non-ideological type...”

Just in case anyone wanted to know if Politico was lying.


4 posted on 03/16/2025 11:59:35 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: Paladin2

Money or blackmail? you decide.


5 posted on 03/16/2025 12:01:12 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: DallasBiff

Moderate?

In which alternative universe?


6 posted on 03/16/2025 1:49:21 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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