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Three Judges Blocking Trump’s Tariffs Have Decades-Long Histories of Democrat Activism
Breitbart ^ | 29 May 2025 | Bradley Jaye

Posted on 05/30/2025 9:38:10 AM PDT by Kazan

The judges on the U.S. Court of International Trade who ruled that President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs are illegal have a history of Democrat Party activism.

Each of the members of the three-judge panel issuing the Wednesday ruling – which was stayed Thursday by an appeals court, allowing the tariffs to continue – fit the profile of other activists judges who continued their political activism after joining the court.

Judges Gary Katzmann, Timothy Reif, and Jane Restani have histories of supporting Democrat candidates that span as far back as 45 years ago and have thwarted Trump’s authority in both of his administrations, earning allegations of judicial activism.

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Katzmann, nominated by Barack Obama in 2015, attended Columbia, Oxford, and Yale Law School and later clerked for Stephen Breyer (while Breyer was on the First Circuit Court of Appeals). He was a researcher at the Center for Criminal Justice at Harvard Law School as well as a lecturer at Harvard Law School.

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Reif, nominated by Trump in 2019, donated $250 to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton in 2016, $265 to Obama’s inaugural committee in 2013, $250 to the DCCC in 1997, and $250 to the presidential campaign of Bill Clinton in 1996, according to Federal Election Commission records. In total, he gave $1,015 to Democrats from 1996 to 2016.

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Restani, a Reagan appointee, attended leftwing UC Berkeley for undergrad, where she received a political science degree in 1969.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; enemieslist; enemyjudges; garykatzmann; janerestani; judgewatch; judicialactivism; judicialsedition; katmanncrimefamily; robertkatzmann; tariffs; timothyreif; trump
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1 posted on 05/30/2025 9:38:10 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

Activists make very very very Bad judges


2 posted on 05/30/2025 9:39:24 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Kazan

Sickening


3 posted on 05/30/2025 9:40:23 AM PDT by yldstrk (Nothing like the truth)
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To: butlerweave

Not if you’re a Democrat


4 posted on 05/30/2025 9:42:04 AM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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To: butlerweave

Not if you’re a Democrat


5 posted on 05/30/2025 9:42:06 AM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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To: Kazan

Their duty is to The Party.

Like the judges who were put on trial at Nuremberg.


6 posted on 05/30/2025 9:44:09 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Kazan

BTTT


7 posted on 05/30/2025 9:48:45 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Kazan

The Gang of Three.


8 posted on 05/30/2025 9:49:14 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Kazan

You’re not supposed to be a political activist if you are a judge but if you’re a liberal democrat, it’s ok.


9 posted on 05/30/2025 9:51:15 AM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: Kazan
Trump making them pop up out of their foxholes for us to all see, hear, and suffer with. It must be done. They would be doing far more quietly damaging things if Trump hadn't flooded their dockets with "take a number" customers from the left. Judges monkeys, Trumps circus. The monkey shows are working overtime to the point they don't have time to think. They just react and fear the hell that he keeps causing them in their previously productive leftist crap factories.

They are at this point treading water in robes with a phone in each hand and political woke DNC attorneys biting at their toes.

10 posted on 05/30/2025 9:51:52 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Dogs are with us briefly. Politicians last on forever. Listen to your dog. )
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To: Kazan

This can’t be true! Judges are all non-partisan, pure as wind driven fresh snow! /S


11 posted on 05/30/2025 10:15:08 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes (Only thing that scares me now is my age number. I am older than Biden, but in very good health!)
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So Sayeth Cheif Judge Roberts of the DNC!


12 posted on 05/30/2025 10:30:42 AM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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I’m afraid this dispute with the courts isn’t over yet.

It’s important to note a few things in the meantime...

First, the trade court ruling applies to all the proposed “Liberation Day” tariffs (that were based on trade deficit numbers)... the tariffs placed on China, Mexico, and Canada earlier this year for failing to combat fentanyl trafficking and illegal immigration... and the 10% blanket tariff on all goods imported to the U.S.

However, the ruling doesn’t affect the 25% tariffs on autos, steel, and aluminum imported to the U.S. or the tariffs put on China during Trump’s first term.

There are also other routes the White House can take to reimpose tariffs, like the Trade Acts of 1930 and 1974. So the story is far from over.

However, if the ruling holds, it takes away basically any leverage the White House may have in tariff-related trade negotiations with other nations.

Again, we have no way of knowing how this will end.

Things are already not as “bad” regarding tariffs as they were back in mid-April. Trump has backed down from exceedingly high tariffs on China, and the market seems to expect the same thing to happen with other countries.

But a complete elimination of Liberation Day tariffs might not be as “great” as it might sound on the surface...


13 posted on 05/30/2025 10:36:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: BenLurkin

The Judges Trial focused on Nazi racial policy, Rassenschande.


14 posted on 05/30/2025 11:10:54 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (Don’t want to hurt no kangaroos )
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To: cableguymn

Right, there are no Obama judges or Bush judges. Just judges./barf


15 posted on 05/30/2025 11:53:41 AM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: Kazan

The suspects could need a IRS audit?


16 posted on 05/30/2025 12:39:21 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Kazan

Just goes to show that the complete judicial system needs overhauling like DOGE started with govt in general.


17 posted on 05/30/2025 3:01:04 PM PDT by gildafarrell (You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.)
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To: Kazan

“Reif, nominated by Trump in 2019, donated $250 to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton in 2016, $265 to Obama’s inaugural committee in 2013, $250 to the DCCC in 1997, and $250 to the presidential campaign of Bill Clinton in 1996”

Good gravy, who did Trump’s research?


18 posted on 05/30/2025 3:13:16 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: BenLurkin

“Like the judges who were put on trial at Nuremberg.”

To the best of my knowledge, not a single Nazi judge was hanged. The Nuremberg judges extended professional courtesy to their black-robed cohorts in Nazi Germany and refused to execute them.

That special treatment was a big, black mark against the Nuremberg tribunal. After a few short years in confinement, the Nazi judges were released and allowed to live out their lives in relative comfort.


19 posted on 05/30/2025 3:30:49 PM PDT by sergeantdave (AI training involves stealing content from creators and not paying them a penny)
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To: Kazan

THREE JUDGES???

More like THREE WITCHES!


20 posted on 05/31/2025 5:23:06 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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