Posted on 03/16/2024 9:30:51 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
In a move hailed by some as a significant stride towards judicial impartiality, the Judicial Conference of the United States has announced a new policy aimed squarely at curtailing the practice known as “judge shopping.” This policy requires that, in certain civil cases with statewide or national implications, judges are to be assigned randomly within the judicial district, effectively dismantling a litigant’s ability to handpick judges likely to rule in their favor.
The new policy, which touches on cases that seek either a declaratory judgment or any form of injunctive relief against state or federal actions, arrives in the wake of heightened controversy surrounding judge shopping. This practice garnered significant attention during a case concerning the federal approval of the abortion medication mifepristone, which was filed in Amarillo, Texas, ensuring that the case would be presided over by the known antiabortion Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, along with fellow Republicans, has been vociferous in opposition to the Judicial Conference’s policy, suggesting that it contradicts federal law. In a collective display of defiance, McConnell, together with Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis, has sent letters to numerous chief judges, encouraging them to maintain current case assignment practices. They assert that it is the prerogative of Congress, not the Judicial Conference, to effectuate changes in the law when necessary. McConnell elucidated, “Judicial Conference policy is not legislation,” and emphasized the autonomy of local courts.
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Maybe they can stop “district shopping” as well. They need to move President Trump’s trials to Idaho or Montana. Get those trials OUT of NYC, Wash DC and Atlanta.
Wait, WHUT?
Justice Roberts says there are no political federal judges!
Now they need to fix the DC jury issue on federal cases.
No conservative can get a fair and just trial in DC. They are not being judged by a jury of their “peers”. Those cases are no more “just” than a black on trial in during Jim Crow with an all white KKK jury.
The DC district should be disbanded by Congress. It has become a venue shop area for political crimes.
Joe the Frontman would get convicted for his top secret document abuse in Idaho or Montana, n a New York minute.
With a KKK judge and KKK prosecutors.
THis+++++
exactly! and the prosecutor selectively prosecuted them to begin with.
Perhaps the defendant (or a lead defendant, or the defendant with the greatest assets) should have the ability to list at least half the judges selected by Republican presidents and at least half the judges selected by Democratic presidents for the court system involved.
This would help shove aside the most extreme judges.
Also, perhaps new judges should be paid an hourly rate instead of a salary.
It is absolutely criminal that the lawless Democrats get exonerated in the most liberal districts in the country and can use the same liberal districts and lawfare to go after great Americans.
Now they need to fix the DC jury issue on federal cases.
“Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions...by an impartial jury of the state and district where the crime shall have been committed...”
“lawless Democrats get exonerated in the most liberal districts in the country”
We could have gotten Joe Biden for Florida Statute voter subornation attempts in my part of Florida.
I asked here on Free Republic in 2020 that Joe Biden get arrested and put on trial for attempted voter subornation.
It might be necessary to have all court award decisions subject to legislative approval before they can take effect, except for the freeing of American citizens from incarceration, the return of property (guns, money, etc.) belonging to American citizens, and those decisions the parties agree to.
“state and district”
I see a “and” not an or, which means technically trials shouldn’t happen in DC since it is not a state.
Mark Steyn appeals hockey stick verdict
...Steyn’s case has been before the courts for twelve years. Nobody involved lives in DC. Mann won through the use of court shopping. In 2019, [Mann] lost a similar case against Tim Ball in the Supreme Court of British Columbia...
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