Posted on 09/04/2017 9:02:27 AM PDT by cotton1706
Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced his retirement Friday afternoon, affording President Donald Trump the opportunity to replace a legal titan on the Chicago-based federal appeals court.
Posner subscribes to a method of judging called “pragmatism,” which seeks to balance the equities of each case and conform judicial rulings to the social, political, and economic arrangements of the times. He touted his commitment to pragmatism in announcing his retirement.
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Pragmatism? Is that what he calls his ideology?
He has as much regard for established law as the Jacobins, IMHO.
Good riddance to bad rubbish!
GMTA. Exactly what I was going to post.
Good riddance to a bad judge.
Let me sum up his legal career as a judge.
He made it up as he went along...
This SOB epitomizes what’s wrong with the judiciary. The country is a better place with him off the bench.
He wants to throw out the Constitution. Most would call that a radical!
Good riddance. Replace him with a strong constitutionislt.
Trump has so far gotten 15 confirmations of circuit court judges (a record) or blue slips for said confirmations (i.e., guaranteed).
Two more are waiting only one blue slip each.
Trump has quietly revolutionized American jurisprudence in eight months.
Yep. While the RATs are screaming Russia collusion, he is quietly
appointing great judges. I just wish he would fire the leakers and
Obama/Clinton holdovers. Life would be much easier for him.
After reading how this ( P. O. S.) Posner views our Constitution, I am so grateful that he is retiring, and that Trump can name his replacement!
I’m glad he is off the bench, but would rather have had him removed for cause — i.e. removed by the Senate.
Posner is wrong, wrong, wrong.
We might note that Democrats have not always held such opinions of the nation's philosophical document--its Declaration of Independence and the Constitution which limited the powers of their form of self-government.
"I believe in the United States of America as a Government of the people by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a Republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable; established upon those principls of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.I therefore believe it is my duty to my Country to love it; to support its Constitution; to obey its laws; to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies." - William Tyler Page, (see bio below)
Historical Notes: The American's Creed was a result of a nationwide contest for writing a National Creed, which would be a brief summary of the American political faith founded upon things fundamental in American history and tradition. The contest was the idea of Henry Sterling Chapin, Commissioner of Education of New York State. Over three thousand entries were received, and William Tyler Page was declared to be the winner. James H. Preston, the mayor of Baltimore, presented an award to Page in the House of Representatives Office Building on April 3, 1918. The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the commissioner of education of the state of New York accepted the Creed for the United States, and the proceedings relating to the award were printed in the Congressional Record of April 13, 1918. It was a time when patriotic sentiments were very much in vogue. The United States had been a participant in World War I only a little over a year at the time the Creed was adopted.
The author of the American's Creed, William Tyler Page, was a descendant of John Page, who had come to America in 1650 and had settled in Williamsburg, Virginia. Another ancestor, Carter Braxton , had signed the Declaration of Independence. Still another ancestor, John Tyler, was the tenth president of the United States. William Tyler Page had come to Washington at the age of thirteen to serve as a Capitol Page. Later he became an employee of the Capitol building and served in that capacity for almost sixty-one years. In 1919 he was elected clerk of the House. Thirteen years later, when the Democrats again became a majority party, they created for Page the office of minority clerk of the House of Representatives. He held this position for the remainder of his life.
Referring to the Creed, Page said: "It is the summary of the fundamental principles of the American political faith as set forth in its greatest documents, its worthiest traditions, and its greatest leaders." His wording of the Creed used passages and phrases from the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and Daniel Webster's reply to Robert Y. Hayne in the Senate in 1830.
Are they all pro-life?? It’s hard to forget what Ronald and George did to us on that issue.
I wonder how many judges would have retired a year ago if they thought for a moment that Hillary might actually lose.
A lot of them will try to hold out for 4 years hoping that Trump is a one termer.
But look for mass judicial retirees when Trump is reelected in 2020.
Watch them block his nominee....they rather have trump as a lame duck and continue to block the president then to grant him any victories!! They’re probably conspiring with the rats to get a rat prez in office in 2020 ..that vacancy can wait until a rat judge can be appointed by the rats!!
Let me sum up his legal career as a judge.
He made it up as he went along... to suit and pay back his highest bidder for his bs judgements!
For all the good it does NOW, why does no one ask where the State\(R)NC have been in the past 40yrs.+, not only re: THIS judge, but ANY\ALL that legislate from the bench, use external ‘law’, use precedent over originalist, etc.?
One can only blame the Judiciary so far; the electorate may (re)elect some, but the majority are allowed to subvert the Republic by the INACTION of those in State/D.C. govt.
Ultimately, the blame comes down to We the People, for continuing to allow do-nothings to be voted into office merely because they have the party mark (somehow, a cow-sh!t sandwich is *SO* much better than a horse-sh!t sandwich because of a label).
I take it you have not actually read any of his legal opinions. He is one of the most respected jurists in US history for very good reason - and not the reason you think. He was on the libertarian - economic freedom end of the spectrum and certainly a central member of the Chicago school of law and economics, which also probably doesn’t mean anything to you - but it should.
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