Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Sneak Preview! Trump’s Supreme Court Nominees



With Donald Trump appearing to be more electable with each outrageous attack, it’s time to think seriously about his potential nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Montana District Judge G. Todd: This judge gave an extremely lenient sentence to a rapist after suggesting the 14-year-old assault victim was partly to blame for the crime against her. There’s a big point for Trump’s misogynistic values. The fact that Judge Todd was later censured by the Montana Supreme Court makes him a judicial icon for anti-establishmentarian justice.
U.S. District Chief Judge Richard Cebull. When his robe is off, this guy loves to hate on African-Americans. He was caught sending racist emails about President Obama from his courthouse chambers. His emails also expressed disdain for blacks, Indians, Hispanics, women, some religious faiths, liberal political leaders; other emails contained inappropriate jokes about sexual orientation. Not to worry, he took the hero’s path by retiring the day a panel of his judicial peers severely reprimanded him. Trump voters “would love this guy” (to borrow from the future President’s vernacular).
Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore: Likely the most right-wing state judge in the U.S., he fought to have a Ten Commandments displayed in the state Supreme Court. Ignoring orders not to install the display, he did so anyway. Now there’s the kind of judicial activism Trump would admire. Eventually a federal judge ordered him to remove the religious symbol from the public court. When he refused, a nine-judge judicial ethics panel vacated his seat. A few years later, he ran for the court again and Alabama voters put him back on the bench.

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