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‘You can hear the Klan’s lawyers’: Federal judge likens Trump’s attacks on judiciary to KKK
WashPost ^ | 4-13-2019 | Reid Thiebolt

Posted on 04/13/2019 9:43:15 AM PDT by tcrlaf

President Trump has attacked the judiciary like few U.S. leaders before him, disparaging judges and their rulings as “dangerous,” “horrible” and “a complete and total disgrace.” Some of his supporters and fellow Republicans applaud and parrot him, but U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves said he hears something sinister: echoes of a time when the Ku Klux Klan and the architects of the Jim Crow South attacked the courts for chipping away at segregation and racism.

In a speech to the University of Virginia School of Law on Thursday, Reeves publicly criticized Trump’s aggressive responses to his administration’s losses in court and the lack of diversity in his judicial appointments — an extremely rare rebuke from a sitting federal judge. Though Reeves, whose court is in Jackson, Miss., never mentioned Trump by name, he quoted the president more than a dozen times and compared him to a stridently racist Alabama governor.

“When the executive branch calls our courts and their work ‘stupid,’ ‘horrible,’ ‘ridiculous,’ ‘incompetent,’ ‘a laughingstock,’” Reeves said, drawing from Trump’s Twitter feed, “you can hear the slurs and threats of executives like George Wallace, echoing into the present.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bigot; judge; klan; racism
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To: tcrlaf

This guy sounds like a Traitor Roberts Judge.


21 posted on 04/13/2019 10:30:08 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: tcrlaf
President Trump has attacked the judiciary like few U.S. leaders before him, disparaging judges and their rulings as “dangerous,” “horrible” and “a complete and total disgrace.” Some of his supporters and fellow Republicans applaud and parrot him, but U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves said he hears something sinister: echoes of a time when the Ku Klux Klan and the architects of the Jim Crow South attacked the courts for chipping away at segregation and racism.
Judge Reeves takes any criticism as a personal affront and assumes that he is entitled not only to his own opinion but to rhetorical deference from the president of the United States. He does not assume that he is owed rhetorical deference by the Paladins of the press, and he knows better to cross them. But a mere president of the United States? A Republican? That is just too much!

22 posted on 04/13/2019 10:46:15 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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To: tcrlaf

Yep. No bias in our judiciary. No siree Bob.


23 posted on 04/13/2019 10:51:00 AM PDT by BadLands59
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To: reasonisfaith

KKK have always been Democrats. Rats appear to be very frightened and angry that some black people are finally leaving their cozy plantation. This guy’s commentary reminds me of the Samuel Jackson “Stephen” character from Django Unchained.


24 posted on 04/13/2019 11:01:25 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: tcrlaf

Let’s bombard him with pictures of the governor of VA!!


25 posted on 04/13/2019 11:36:30 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: jospehm20

BlackKlansman


26 posted on 04/13/2019 11:42:06 AM PDT by TonytheTiger7777
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To: TonytheTiger7777

Shiela Jackson Lee got her JD from UV. They produce some real geniuses there.


27 posted on 04/13/2019 11:49:05 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: tcrlaf

Obola appointee


28 posted on 04/13/2019 12:16:28 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: tcrlaf
This guy should be removed from the federal bench, pronto.

His wife (or "husband") should start feeding him eggs,lard and other healthy stuff.

29 posted on 04/13/2019 12:17:55 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: simpson96

Yeah. No racial stereotyping going on in “his” mind, is there?


30 posted on 04/13/2019 12:21:21 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: tcrlaf

He should be impeached. Not for saying this, but for being dumb enough to believe it.


31 posted on 04/13/2019 12:24:54 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: tcrlaf

Impeach this racist, Stalinist bigot.


32 posted on 04/13/2019 12:47:02 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: tcrlaf

This judge must now refuse himself. Same for RBG but they think they are above reproach—gods.


33 posted on 04/13/2019 2:03:50 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: tcrlaf

In the words of Harry Truman, “the son-of-a-bitch is no good.”


34 posted on 04/13/2019 3:14:44 PM PDT by jimfree (My18 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: tcrlaf

This POC judge needs to be impeached. By being such and outspoken a-hole, he has proven the point of a biased, outlandish judiciary.


35 posted on 04/13/2019 3:36:15 PM PDT by vpintheak (Stop making stupid people famous!)
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To: tcrlaf

One can always count on the Nazi pigs at the WP to pretend they are victims.

The beauty of these lies is that the Nazi sows at the WP have no idea how to defend themselves and will likely die in the first wave of CWII.


36 posted on 04/13/2019 4:11:26 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: tcrlaf
“When the executive branch calls our courts and their work ‘stupid,’ ‘horrible,’ ‘ridiculous,’ ‘incompetent,’ ‘a laughingstock,’” Reeves said, drawing from Trump’s Twitter feed, “you can hear the slurs and threats of executives like George Wallace, echoing into the present.”

Reeves and other communists are sounding more and more shrill and hysterical, are they not?

Of course the communist Reeves fails to state why such adjectives are being used, or that the target of the criticisms are activist judges who do not need the rule of law to make their biased and warped decisions.

Reeves may be projecting his own failures and hoping it sticks.

37 posted on 04/13/2019 4:15:26 PM PDT by olezip
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Trump derangement Syndrome, left to fester, sinks into this example of shear psychosis, delusions and paranoia.


38 posted on 04/13/2019 8:21:51 PM PDT by USCG SimTech
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