Posted on 01/24/2020 5:14:58 AM PST by cotton1706
As Democrats’ efforts to oust President Trump from office have played out in the Senate this week, his opponents in the judiciary branch of government quietly maneuvered to curb conservatives’ growing influence on the federal bench.
The ethical advisory arm of the federal judiciary is quietly circulating a draft rule that would ban judges and their clerks from belonging to the Federalist Society, an organization aimed at fostering an originalist interpretation of the Constitution at law schools and through forums and debates across the country.
The proposed rules change is the latest salvo in a campaign to cast the Federalist Society as too political, and thereby politically risky, for judiciary participation. The Wall Street Journal editorial board labeled the proposal “judicial political mischief masked in high sounding rhetoric,” a step that is spurring a backlash among “judges and others” who should denounce it as “undermining legal education in America and perhaps violating the First Amendment right of association.”
Conservative activists put it more bluntly, calling the rules change a transparent attempt to neuter the Federalist Society. The motivation is obvious, these activists say, after the Senate has confirmed a record number of Trump-appointed judges, many of whom are Federalist Society members or have participated in the group’s events.
“This rules change was probably instigated and driven by people who are upset with the transformation that is taking place in the federal judiciary, and since they are on the left, they are accustomed to addressing problems by trying to censor the other side,” a longtime Federalist Society member told RealClearPolitics. “And that’s exactly what this is — an act of censorship.”
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
And no more Leftist appointments made on the basis of color or gender.
ethical advisory arm of the federal judiciary. Is there an unethical advisory arm? Or is that taken for granted in the legal profession.
Yes, McCarthy tried, and got thoroughly demonized and discredited by the (then still behind the curtain) leftists/progressives.
Our pubic school teachers still demonize him, while praising Michael Moore.
“Soon reading the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence will be a felony punishable by an indefinite stay at a small facility somewhere in the Southwest that no one returns from. Ever.”
Same for pastors that read aloud any anti-sodomy passage in church.
If Congress can have a Black Caucus and a Progressive Caucus, why can’t judges join the Federalist Society?
Will conservative judges be disqualified next on the basis of their magazine subscriptions?
C'mon. A little smaller brush OK?
Appointed to the Circuit Court by President Trump. Previously appointed to the District Court by President Bush. If new judges share values like these, then someone is not doing a good job vetting them. Which Senator recommended him for Circuit Court?
How about neutering these MARXISTS?
From where do they get their authority?
Same for pastors that read aloud any anti-sodomy Bible passage in church.
“Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of...”
Sounds familiar.
Apparently they don’t like freedom of association any more than the First or Second Amendments.
How does this pass First Amendment muster?
Oh, I dunno...
https://civics.sites.unc.edu/files/2012/05/JoeMcCarthyRedScare.pdf
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy (Wiki is lefty)
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1061/mccarthyism
Thanks for that.
The left learned a lot cutting their teeth on McCarthy. Lessons and techniques for vilification they’ve used ever since.
Freedom of association?
Yes, judges belonging to the Federalist Society because they are pre-disposed to be unfairly biased against leftists and minorities.
It is better a judge candidate is a member of the: National Bar Association, National Black Law Students Association. National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations, National Lesbian and Gay Law Association, National Native American Bar Association, Hispanic National Bar Association, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association ...
up4later
Simply confusing people about what natural born citizen means trumped the Constitution.
It’s easy when people are stupid.
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