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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Activists make very very very Bad judges
Sickening
Not if you’re a Democrat
Not if you’re a Democrat
Their duty is to The Party.
Like the judges who were put on trial at Nuremberg.
BTTT
The Gang of Three.
You’re not supposed to be a political activist if you are a judge but if you’re a liberal democrat, it’s ok.
They are at this point treading water in robes with a phone in each hand and political woke DNC attorneys biting at their toes.
This can’t be true! Judges are all non-partisan, pure as wind driven fresh snow! /S
So Sayeth Cheif Judge Roberts of the DNC!
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...
The Judges Trial focused on Nazi racial policy, Rassenschande.
Right, there are no Obama judges or Bush judges. Just judges./barf
The suspects could need a IRS audit?
Just goes to show that the complete judicial system needs overhauling like DOGE started with govt in general.
“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?
“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.
THREE JUDGES???
More like THREE WITCHES!
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