#Trump-appointed judge

[thashining]

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Apparently there IS a difference between Democrats and Republicans

[tomorrowusa]

A Trump-appointed federal judge just resigned in disgrace. Sadly, it's not one of his three SCOTUS appointments.

A Trump-appointed federal judge in Alaska abruptly and with no explanation resigned from his position last Wednesday.  Court documents made public Monday reveal that former U.S. District Judge Joshua Kindred’s resignation came after he was asked to voluntarily resign in response to a judicial investigation that found he had “an inappropriately sexualized relationship” with one of his law clerks during her clerkship and while she was an assistant district attorney and engaged in misconduct that was “pervasive and abusive.”

Basically, Joshua Kindred was acting like Trump. Of course he tried to lie his way out of his troubles.

Kindred also repeatedly lied about his misconduct during the investigation and “created a hostile work environment for his law clerks by engaging in unwanted, offensive, and abusive conduct, and treating the law clerks in a demonstrably egregious and hostile manner,” according to the 30-page court order — which was filed in May but was made public on July 8. The report reveals behind-the-scenes details of an out of control work environment created by Kindred, who was accused of repeatedly speaking with “no filter” about his sex life and receiving nude photos from a federal prosecutor whose office had frequent business before him. “We conclude that Judge Kindred’s misconduct was pervasive and abusive, constituted sexual harassment, and fostered a hostile work environment that took a personal and professional toll on multiple clerks,” the report read. At the center of the scathing report is an unnamed law clerk. The report details the allegations behind two inappropriate “sexual encounters” between the female clerk and the former judge, as well as the contents of 278 pages of text messages between the two over an 11-month period. 

A reminder that there are serious allegations of misconduct involving Republican members of the US Supreme Court which need to be investigated.

[newslink7com]

Texas Judge Fernando Rodriguez Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Deport Venezuelans Using 1798 Alien Enemies Act
Rodriguez, a Trump appointee, ruled the gang’s actions don’t meet the legal definition of an “invasion”—the law was meant for wartime threats, not gang crimes.

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[democracyunderground]

WHEN EVEN THIS PARTISAN JUDGE WON'T DISMISS CHARGES AGAINST TRUMP, YOU KNOW HE'S FUCKED.

[anyataylorjoys]

People continued to die and are still dying from Covid or long term Covid. Under Biden, they stopped counting the deaths. Do whatever you want, but do not try to shame people from not voting or for voting third party this time. There was so much that Biden could've done or could do now during his presidency to codify Roe v Wade or even stop the genocide of Palestinians. Under Biden, more money went towards the police, miltary, and Israel then when Trump was in office. There is no lesser evil, that is bs to keep liberals voting and getting nothing in return. Democrats holds your rights and your healthcare as hostage and then do absolutely nothing to protect said rights or healthcare while in office. Politicians HAS TO EARN your votes or they straight up don't deserve them. It's simple as that.

Are you saying you'd rather have a dictator as president cause that's all I'm hearing out of this monologue.

[wild-aspen]

Look.

I have made you a chart. A very simple chart.

People say "You have to draw the line somewhere, and Biden has crossed it-" and my response is "Trump has crossed way more lines than Biden".

These categories are based off of actual policy enacted by both of these men while they were in office.

If the ONLY LINE YOU CARE ABOUT is line 12, you have an incredible amount of privilege, AND YOU DO NOT CARE ABOUT PALESTINIANS. You obviously have nothing to fear from a Trump presidency, and you do not give a fuck if a ceasefire actually occurs. You are obviously fine if your queer, disabled, and marginalized loved ones are hurt. You clearly don't care about the status of American democracy, which Trump has openly stated he plans to destroy on day 1 he is in office.

EDIT:

Ok fine, I spent 3 hours compiling sources for all of these, you can find that below the cut.

I'll give at least one link per subject area. There are of course many more sources to be read on these subject areas and no post could possibly give someone a full education on these subjects.

Biden and trans rights: https://www.hrc.org/resources/president-bidens-pro-lgbtq-timeline

Trump and trans rights: https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/trump-on-lgbtq-rights-rolling-back-protections-and-criminalizing-gender-nonconformity

The two sources above show how Biden has done a lot of work to promote trans rights, and how Trump did a lot of work to hurt trans rights.

Biden on abortion access: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/politics/what-is-in-biden-abortion-executive-order/index.html

Trump on abortion access: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-trump-republican-presidential-election-2024-585faf025a1416d13d2fbc23da8d8637

Biden openly supports access to abortion and has taken steps to protect those rights at a federal level even after Roe v Wade was overturned. Trump, on the other hand, was the man who appointed the judges who helped overturn Roe v Wade and he openly brags about how proud he is of that decision. He also states that he believes individual states should have the final say in whether or not abortion is legal, and that he trusts them to "do the right thing", meaning he supports stronger abortion bans.

Biden on environmental reform: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/10/07/fact-sheet-president-biden-restores-protections-for-three-national-monuments-and-renews-american-leadership-to-steward-lands-waters-and-cultural-resources/

Trump on environmental reform: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks-list.html

Biden has made major steps forward for environmental reform. He has restored protections that Trump rolled back. He has enacted many executive orders and more to promote environmental protections, including rejoining the Paris Accords, which Trump withdrew the USA from. Trump is also well known for spreading conspiracy theories and lies about global climate change, calling it a "Chinese hoax".

Biden on healthcare and prescription reform: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/06/09/biden-administration-announces-savings-43-prescription-drugs-part-cost-saving-measures-president-bidens-inflation-reduction-act.html

Trump on healthcare reform: https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/07/politics/obamacare-health-insurance-ending-trump/index.html

I'm rolling healthcare and prescriptions and vaccines and public health all into one category here since they are related. Biden has lowered drug costs, expanded access to medicaid, and ACA enrollment has risen during his presidency. He has also made it so medical debt no longer applies to a person's credit score. He signed many executive orders during his first few weeks in office in order to get a handle on Trump's grievous mishandling of the COVID pandemic. Trump also wants to end the ACA. Trump is well known for refusing to wear a mask during the pandemic, encouraging the use of hydroxylchloroquine to "treat" COVID, and being openly anti-vaxx.

Biden on student loan forgiveness: https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/biden-harris-administration-announces-additional-77-billion-approved-student-debt-relief-160000-borrowers

Trump on student loan forgiveness: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2024/06/20/trump-knocks-bidens-vile-student-loan-forgiveness-plans-suggests-reversal/

Trump wants to reverse the student loan forgiveness plans Biden has enacted. Biden has already forgiven billions of dollars in loans and continues to work towards forgiving more.

Infrastructure funding:

I'm putting these links next together because they are all about infrastructure.

In general, Trump's "achievements" for infrastructure were to destroy environmental protections to speed up projects. Many of his plans were ineffective due to the fact that he did not clearly outline where the money was going to come from, and he was unwilling to raise taxes to pay for the projects. He was unable (and unwilling) to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill during his 4 years in office. He did sign a few disaster relief bills. He did not enthusiastically promote renewable energy infrastructure. He created "Infrastructure Weeks" that the federal government then failed to fund. Trump did not do nothing for infrastructure, but his no-tax stance and his dislike for renewable energy means the contributions he made to American infrastructure were not as much as he claimed they were, nor as much as they could have been. Basically, he made a lot of promises, and delivered on very few of them. He is not "against" infrastructure, but he's certainly against funding it.

Biden was able to pass that bipartisan bill after taking office. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan that Trump tried to prevent from passing during Biden's term contains concrete funding sources and step by step plans to rebuild America's infrastructure. If you want to read the plan, you can find it here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/build/guidebook/. Biden has done far more for American infrastructure than Trump did, most notably by actually getting the bipartisan bill through congress.

Biden on Racial Equity: https://www.npr.org/sections/president-biden-takes-office/2021/01/26/960725707/biden-aims-to-advance-racial-equity-with-executive-actions

Trump on Racial Equity: https://www.axios.com/2024/04/01/trump-reverse-racism-civil-rights https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-37230916

Trump's racist policies are loud and clear for everyone to hear. We all heard him call Mexicans "Drug dealers, criminals, rapists". We all watched as he enacted travel bans on people from majority-Muslim nations. Biden, on the other hand, has done quite a lot during his term to attempt to reconcile racism in this country, including reversing Trump's "Muslim ban" the first day he was in office.

Biden on DEI: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/

Trump on DEI: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-tried-to-crush-the-dei-revolution-heres-how-he-might-finish-the-job/ar-BB1jg3gz

Biden supports DEI and has signed executive orders and passed laws that support DEI on the federal level. Trump absolutely hates DEI and wants to eradicate it.

Biden on criminal justice reform: https://time.com/6155084/biden-criminal-justice-reform/

Trump on criminal justice reform: https://www.vox.com/2020-presidential-election/21418911/donald-trump-crime-criminal-justice-policy-record https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/05/trumps-extreme-plans-crime/678502/

From pardons for non-violent marijuana convictions to reducing the federal government's reliance on private prisons, Biden has done a lot in four years to reform our criminal justice system on the federal level. Meanwhile, Trump has described himself as "tough on crime". He advocates for more policing, including "stop and frisk" activities. Ironically it's actually quite difficult to find sources about what Trump thinks about crime, because almost all of the search results are about his own crimes.

Biden on military support for Israel: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-obama-divide-closely-support-israel-rcna127107

Trump on military support for Israel: https://www.vox.com/politics/353037/trump-gaza-israel-protests-biden-election-2024

Biden supports Israel financially and militarily and promotes holding Israel close. So did Trump. Trump was also very pro-Israel during his time in office and even moved the embassy to Jerusalem and declared Jerusalem the capitol of Israel, a move that inflamed attitudes in the region.

Biden on a ceasefire: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2024/06/05/gaza-israel-hamas-cease-fire-plan-biden/73967659007/

Trump on a ceasefire: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-israel-gaza-finish-problem-rcna141905

Trump has tried to be quiet on the issue but recently said he wants Israel to "finish the problem". He of course claims he could have prevented the whole problem. Trump also openly stated after Oct 7th that he would bar immigrants who support Hamas from the country and send in officers to American protests to arrest anyone supporting Hamas.

Biden meanwhile has been quietly urging Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire deal for months, including the most recent announcement earlier in June, though it seems as though that deal has finally fallen through as well.

[economicsinaction]

Politics and Judiciary: Mexico, USA and India

The decision of the Mexican government to change the nature of appointment of Judges led to debates on the connection between politics and judiciary once gain. Mexico has instituted popular elections to select its judges. The first election has happened. Sections of global commentators see this selection process problematic. Their main argument is that candidates who get maximum popular support,…

[newslink7com]

Trump Appoints Jeanine Pirro Acting U.S. Attorney for D.C. After 20 Years Out of Legal Work—Critics Say Fox News Ties Replacing Qualifications

Pirro hasn't practiced law in two decades, but Trump just made her acting U.S. attorney for D.C. Critics say no serious legal professionals want the job—and Fox News resumes are all that matter.

👉 Read the full story at https://newslink7.com

[marzipanandminutiae]

Roe v. Wade getting overturned had nothing to do with Biden and everything to do with conservative judges nominated by Trump and voted in by Republicans. it was a campaign promise Trump made- which pretty comfortably makes him worse for that particular domestic issue, and I can tell he's worse for many others because I have literally any awareness of the last eight years and a modicum of common sense -and he followed through. like. have you forgotten that that was a Supreme Court case, ie not under the president's purview?

yes, the congressional bypass thing happened, and I'm pretty pissed about it too. but that doesn't mean you need to spread miscontextualized spins on the Roe v. Wade situation

Biden did sign an executive order aimed at expanding birth control access while Trump was bragging about having "terminated" Roe v. Wade, so. you know. there's that, re: who's better for domestic issues

after roe v wade got overturned under biden (a constitutional right we had for FIFTY years) i don’t believe any of the goofy “biden is better for domestic issues” rhetoric . you are lying to me and you are lying to yourself

[phantomrose96]

Hello. I mean this really imploringly, and really genuinely. If you're a U.S. citizen still on the fence about what to do for the election, please vote Harris. There's this idea circulating that the person you vote for should be someone you like, love, idolize and that is so very not true. You're voting for the opponent you'll face for the next four years when you have issues to protest and matters to vocalize. You're voting for the person most likely to give an inch when you protest the things that matter. You're voting for the person most likely to not strip away your existing rights and scatter your focus across the things we already won, and which can be taken away. We lost Roe v Wade under the Trump-appointed judges. The current trans-panic is so disgustingly on fire, and it's absolutely the Republicans eager to rip away what little protection there is. Both candidates are also, disgustingly, pro-Israel. But Trump will never ever give a fuck to any protest on that matter.

You don't want to be complicit in genocide. I get it. But if you're a U.S. citizen, you're already benefiting from the U.S.'s foreign policy, and that's already complacency. Refusing to vote or voting third party isn't absolving you of that. It's just letting Trump walk in the door. And letting Trump in is complacency. And your ability to organize, and to make change, will go so less far against a Trump cabinet than a Harris one. The material harm under Trump is real.

Does voting for Harris make you feel guilty? I'm sorry, but you have to bear it. Your guilt isn't what's important. A white person's guilt isn't important. A citizen of a global terror's guilt isn't important. Actions that pacify your guilt aren't important. Focusing on absolving your guilt is in fact harmful, as opposed to actions that can actually materially reduce harm.

Please protest. Please donate to good causes. Please support Palestine. Please be vocal. Please fight for BIPOC and LGBTQA+ rights. Please view Harris as the opponent whose ears these things fall on. Your ability to organize safely, largely, loudly, and effectively will go so much further under a Harris presidency. Please.

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[nyxelestia]

This is why I'm telling people to vote for Biden, I don't give a fuck about your conscience.

so today the supreme court decided to slap me in the face with a dead fish.

so the supreme court overturned chevron, which is an administrative law case that sounds really boring to read aloud. but this is extremely important precedent that conservatives have been trying to overturn since it got enacted.

basically, chevron as a legal decision that said that judges should play a "limited, deferential role" when they evaluate the actions of agency experts. basically it says, "judges don't have absolute knowledge of all things, and so they should be understanding and allow agency experts to have leeway in statutory interpretation so they can make decisions about things that they themselves are experts in." basically saying, "hey, judges don't know how to clean air. maybe the environmental protection agency should determine the best way to keep air clean."

which sounds pretty straightforward, except laws aren't straightforward like that, so this was a pretty big deal especially in terms of like...what's good for the environment. what's good for fishing rules. what's good for air quality.

chevron set out a legal test for courts to determine whether they should defer to agency decisions so long as congress hasn't explicitly discussed something to do with those terms. conservatives have wanted to overturn this for decades purely so business interests can operate without worrying about regulations.

and on top of THAT: the supreme court just allowed cities to enforce bans--with criminal consequences--on people experiencing homelessness sleeping outside.

i expected both of these overturns but it still SUCKS.

[jim-fetter-illustrations]

What if we could all pick our best friends to judge our actions, That's Trumps world in a nutshell, literally!

How many of us, when on trial in a criminal case can appoint our own personal Judge to oversee the trial???

No on I've ever heard of!

But the Supreme Court Trump trial has done just that.

3 of the bastardize it as Trump has done that trial were appointed by Trump, to determine if he is criminally liable for overseeing the Jan. 6, 2021 Washington D.C. Capital takeover by his supporters when he lost the presidency and thought he shouldn't have.

Numerous scholars, historians, political scientists, and journalists have characterized those efforts to overturn the election as an attempted self-coup by Trump.

Ya see, The fact that someone could use our political system to bastardize it as Trump has done, and is presently doing, is a testament that the system was designed to favor the wealthy and not middle class Americans,....which are the majority of Americans,... always have been, because without the middle class there would be no labor to build the America we see today.

All I've got to say is if Trump isn't convicted we are all fucked, and now I know why Shakespeare wrote “let’s kill all the lawyers".....

[mariacallous]

The judge who brought up intersex people to point out how inaccurate and wrong the Trump EO is? She was appointed by…