Three Judges Blocking Trump’s Tariffs Have Decades-Long Histories of Democrat Activism

Breitbart ^ | 29 May 2025 | Bradley Jaye

[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.

[nikos1121]

The Federalist Foundation? have been giving Trump the names of people to appoint as judges.

I think he’s seen the light as just about every panel of judges who have gone against him have one that he’s appointed.

He’s stopping the use of their recs, and will appoint his own looking for loyalty.

[yldstrk]

The Federalist Foundation? have been giving Trump the names of people to appoint as judges.

I think he’s seen the light as just about every panel of judges who have gone against him have one that he’s appointed.

He’s stopping the use of their recs, and will appoint his own looking for loyalty.
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I agree the Federalist Society’s recommendations have been a huge disappointment. Full transparency, I am a member of the Federalist Society. It is the only place I can find conservative attorneys, so it is a mystery to me why the Federalist Society’s judge recommdations havve been such soft minded judges. Unless they are like Sally Field “You like me!” Wanting to be popular.