Wow. He’s a *Carter* appointee.
Knock me over with a feather.
When presidents make appointments to the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, they usually consult with the highest-ranking Puerto Rico public officials from their same party. In 1979, both Governor Carlos Romero-Barceló and Resident Commissioner Baltasar Corrada were Democrats, and likely one or both of them recommended Judge Pérez-Giménez to President Carter. Corrada was only pretending to be a Democrat so as to serve in the majority in Congress (he switched to the GOP as mayor of San Juan in the 1980s and presided over the PR delegation to the 1988 Republican National Convention, and Romero-Barceló cared more about the judge being pro-statehood than a liberal, so a generally conservative jurist like Pérez-Giménez slipped through.
Jimmy will be calling the dimwhits in Sodom on the Potomac and demand impeachment and say the guy lied to him in interviews.