4 ms·
I don't think that's the full picture. Activist judges have been a problem for awhile now, and it seems to be mostly influenced by ideology rather than purely m
by aliasxneo 5mo ago
I don't think that's the full picture. Activist judges have been a problem for awhile now, and it seems to be mostly influenced by ideology rather than purely money.
- epistasis 5mo agoYou can't really venue shop for an "activist" judge but you can for one who will side with the powerful over the weak. Your comparison is itself not a full picture.
- deleted 5mo ago[deleted]
- cjkaminski 5mo agoThat's quite a claim. You need to cite your sources for this one, if you want to be taken seriously.
- aliasxneo 5mo agoI'm not sitting on a precompiled list I can just drop into a comment. But I do have a pretty hard rule about investing more effort than someone else already has. So this would be an unequal trade for me to go spend the rest of my Saturday building a list for someone who wrote two sentences on the internet. To add slightly more flavoring, I think its a pretty reasonable view to assume that the massive fracturing happening in the American political scene is most likely affecting the judicial branch. Perhaps you disagree. Take it as an opinion. Don't take it seriously. Whatever floats your boat.
- stirfish 5mo agoI read somewhere that aliasxneo eats turds with a fork and knife. I'm not sitting on a precompiled list of sources, and it would be unfair to ask me to spend my Saturday building a list for someone whom I read eats turds with a fork and knife. I won't say what aliasxneo does to add slightly more flavoring, but I think it's a pretty reasonable to assume it's gross and lazy.
- antonvs 5mo agoHow about this: what's an example of an activist judge, according to you? Bonus question: do you enjoy watching Fox?
- zephen 5mo agoI'm not OP, but Matthew Kacsmaryk is definitely an activist judge, no matter what the fuck Fox news thinks of him.
- zephen 5mo agoAnybody paying attention would know that there are several activist judges in Texas, feeding into the activist 5th circuit -- the only appeals court that has been very often overturned by the current supreme court for being too conservative. Just in case you're being honest about your own ignorance on this matter, you can start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Kacsmaryk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Kacsmaryk
- alsetmusic 5mo agoOP said (in a sibling comment) that they aren't out to educate you by doing work for you. I'll give you quick examples: the judge in Texas who made the morning-after pill illegal. The supreme court (not worthy of proper noun anymore) overturning Roe vs Wade. Those two should be enough to detect a pattern and then easily verify whether that's a trend or not. Actually, just checking out newsworthy rulings in Texas might take care of everything. The corruption there is astounding.
- majormajor 5mo agoIt's certainly obviously true that one political party used "we will find judges who will overturn one particular court case" as a fundamental part of their campaigning for decades...
- henry2023 5mo agoWhat’s an activist judge? Do you believe a judge can just rule whatever they want outside the framework of law?
- zephen 5mo agoSo many do, starting with the supreme court lately.
- alsetmusic 5mo agoPeople are disagreeing, but I think they're seeing the word "activist" and assuming a different meaning than what I think OP meant. I suggest reframing as "politically motivated" judges. I don't think it's difficult to deny OP's comment using those terms.