[OldDeckHand]

"Judge Land Presided over MAJ Cook’s hearing and was also dismissed."

That's correct. The orders for deployment were rescinded rendering the application for TRO moot. How else would have you have had the bench rule in that case?

As conservatives, we should expressly desire for judges to follow the law, not to make it up as they go along. For Land to have done anything other than dismiss would clearly have been "making it up" as he went along - hardly a conservative position.

There's nothing more unbecoming in a conservative than hypocrisy. The hypocrisy on display by many on and about this topic is unrelenting with respect how they wish for jurists to behave, rather than expecting the judge to follow the law as well as his obligations as outlined in the Federal Rules for Civil Procedures - rules that are understood by every 1L in the country. It's painfully hypocritical and equally unbecoming.

[Sibre Fan]

As conservatives, we should expressly desire for judges to follow the law, not to make it up as they go along. For Land to have done anything other than dismiss would clearly have been "making it up" as he went along - hardly a conservative position.

There's nothing more unbecoming in a conservative than hypocrisy. The hypocrisy on display by many on and about this topic is unrelenting with respect how they wish for jurists to behave, rather than expecting the judge to follow the law as well as his obligations as outlined in the Federal Rules for Civil Procedures - rules that are understood by every 1L in the country. It's painfully hypocritical and equally unbecoming.

From the opinion:
"Any middle school civics student would readily recognize the irony of abandoning fundamental principles upon which our Country was founded in order to purportedly “protect and preserve” those very principles."

[roaddog727]

“The orders for deployment were rescinded rendering the application for TRO moot. How else would have you have had the bench rule in that case? “

Correct also. And no, I would not want it any other way. What I was indicating, however, was that Judge Land pesided iover both cases - addressing your contention of “random selection”.

This case assignment does not appear random to me.