While Dems Waste Time on Impeachment Trump and McConnell Are Remaking the Judiciary

For this thread, the way to address this is to comment on the Trump changes to the Judiciary. Trump is lighting up the fires producing Judges. Yet Democrats play this dog and pony show known as a coup.
https://www.gingrich360.com/2019/11...ump-and-mcconnell-are-remaking-the-judiciary/





By Newt Gingrich

The number 162 is important. After Thursday’s approval of Judge Steven Menashi to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 162 is the number of new Trump-appointed federal judges that have been approved by the United States Senate with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s leadership.

This is an extraordinary number. It includes two Supreme Court Justices, 46 circuit court judges, 112 US District Court judges, and two judges on the United States Court of International Trade.

This means that one out of every four appellate court judges have been nominated by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate. As Politico wrote one year ago, “McConnell’s pace of filling federal court seats has been eye-popping, especially on the powerful appellate circuits.” Importantly, many of these courts are being changed so that Republican appointees outnumber Democratic appointees. (In fact, Menashi’s appointment flipped the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in this way.)

 

Keep them coming.
https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/judicial-nominations-update-54/

 

The OP seems to think that the Impeachment hearings in some way allow Trump and Moscow Mitch to slam through more unqualified partisan judges.

That's absurd. It has been going on for three years and will continue as long as the GOP holds the Senate and Trump is in the White House.

All it does it point out how important it is for Dems to retake the Senate and Oval Office

 

love it... it'll take time, but our country is going to be saved from turning socialist... cant wait for all the appeals & injunctions that'll be used to blockade those dems policies, thank you dems for setting that precendent of sueing our prez's, you'll be hamstrung for decades

 

The OP highlights one aspect of the lasting damage to the country left behind by this admin once Trump is just a nightmare of a memory.

But some of Trump’s recent choices may blow his cover. It used to be generally understood that anyone expecting to obtain a lifetime judicial appointment had to get a minimal stamp of approval from the American Bar Association via a “qualified” rating. In eight years, Barack Obama did not move forward with a single nominee that was rated as “not qualified” by the ABA. In two and a half years, Trump has nominated five such judges. The fifth, Sarah Pitlyk, nominated for a district court position in Missouri, is impossible to understand as anything other than an ideological payoff to the pro-life groups from which she emerged. Yet the Senate is poised to confirm her this week as a trial judge, as Lithwick notes:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/pitlyk-is-trumps-latest-unqualified-judicial-nominee.html

 

It also highlights how the democrats are ignoring anything resembling due process at the expense of everything else.

 

Stacking the courts with corporate bagmen who will rule against working Americans at every turn and in favor of bank swindlers, gross polluters and international corporations......Bravo!!!!

 

Working Americans??? Nearly all of us work.

 

That’s right and Trump/McConell jusdges will rule against us and in favor of bank swindlers, gross polluters and international tax dodging corporations at every turn.

 

You mean instead of a single appeal judges of hundreds making a ruling in one district which affects everyone?

 

Trump's politicizing the judiciary, a relentless undertaking, may be the aspect of Trumpery in which the degenerate's apologists can most rapturously pleasure themselves, but the propriety of the impeachment inquiry itself is an admirable exercise of American jurisprudence, exposing wrongdoing and punishing it.

The likes of Putin, Un, Erdogan, and Assad have succeeded even more than Trump in rendering their nations judiciaries impotent and achieving their de facto "above the law" immunities, as none need fear being called to account by elected representative of their People. The US has resisted that paaradigm

The unfiltered accounts of career, non-partisan Foreign Service officers and diplomats will continue next week, when more eight witnesses are expected to testify in a three-day span. They will be viciously attacked and maligned by latter-day Plug Uglies (a 19th century American Nativist criminal street gang, sometimes referred to loosely as a political club) as will the media that allows the public to hear them, anyone who shows respect for their dedicated public service that continues in their testifying, and the elected representatives meeting their Constitutional responsibility by conducting the inquiry, despite Trump gagging his minions to prevent their sharing what they know.

The convictions of the very Trumpy Zippy Stone this week reminds us that, despite the ravages of Trumpery inflicted on the nation, the American justice system is alive and well. Trumpy Giuliani, Parnas, and Fruman are in line for the justice that Manafort, Flynn, Cohen, Gates, Papadopoulos, and Van Der Zwaan have been accorded.

Not even packing the benches of the courts with a personality cult of zealots can nullify the United States Constitution.

 

You are obviously talking about the hearsay testimony of the career non-partisan foreign service officers and diplomats. That, of course, assumes that there is such a thing as a non-partisan diplomat or foreign service officer.

As opposed to those who are picked for judgments because they are expected to side with the democrats. I am, of course, referring to the practice of judge shopping to get the decision you want.

 

These judges will be just like the ones they replace, they will allow the corruption of asset forfeiture to continue without due process and idiots will applaud them.
The more that things change the more they stay the same.
Enjoy your empty victory.

 

It has little to actually do with Trump. Obama nominated judges but McConnell refused to confirm them...

 

All the dedicated Foreign Service diplomats called to testify under oath have pertinent and relevant information to share - as is likely the case with Trump minions Mulvaney, Bolton, Pompeo, and all the other potential witnesses whom he has gagged to prevent their sharing what they know. Apparently, despite Trump's attempt to keep him quiet, his million dollar contributor in the know, Gordon Sondland, will aid in the pursuit of truth.

The phony pretense of "hearsay" testimony - no matter how credible and consistently corroborated by the testimonies under oath of other respected witnesses - being inadmissible is contradicted by fanatical Trumpies themselves insisting that the protected whistleblower be outed and provide his testimony - which is, of course, indisputably, "hearsay" - was long ago rendered superfluous and irrelevant by the multiple compelling accounts of those more intimately aware of what went down. "We want more hearsay!" is a particularly stupid attempt at diversion.

Our legal system has not been co-opted.

 

It should be noted that complicit in Don's efforts to turn the federal bench in to a festering bastion of unfit, far right ideologues is Mitch McTreason. When the history of the period is written McTurtle will be chronicled as the most partisan and duplicitous leader of the Senate..........ever. The stacking of the federal bench with unqualified hacks being equal to the single most deceitful, nakedly abusive power grabs in the annuls of this great country..........the refusal to hold hearings for Garland's nomination to the SC.

 

So far, all hearsay and not even good hearsay at that. None that showed that Trump said anything more than was already in the transcript.

Trump is not preventing Bolton from testifying. That is his own choice. As for Mulvaney and Pompeo, there is executive privilege. They might be compelled at a later date. In the meantime, the dems are preventing Biden and son from testifying which should clear it up one way or the other. Apparently, the democrats do not like that possibility..

 

And what relevance would there be to the impeachment hearings. The "Biden is corrupt" mantra has been demolished by the first witnesses. As such, it is a distraction of no particular relevance and a waist of time.

 

Trump appears hellbent upon concealing as much as he can, as Bolton and Kupperman await a court ruling on whether they can be prevented by Trump from sharing whatever pertinent inside information they possess.

Meanwhile, the revelations continue:

Again, not to divert the topic of this thread, despite Trump's politicization of our judicial system, the pursuit of justice endures in America.

 

Since Trump has claimed that Biden was the reason for asking the Ukraine for an investigation, it makes sense to get him to testify.

 

There has not been a single revelation beyond what was in the transcript to start with. The claim is that they have got him now. Well then, impeach and get it over with.

 

The desperation to rush to the foreordained partisan dismissal of the facts in the Senate is understandable, but it is more important that the truth continues to emerge and is corroborated. The respected, apolitical public servants who are enlightening the American people must be allowed to do so, and, if Trump wants to stop hiding the insights of his insiders, he can remove their gags at any time.

 

Out of the Gate, the Schiffistas brought 3 alleged witnesses, none of them saw or heard a crime. What are they waiting for?

When one sees two courts, a court composed of Democrats and their stooges, vs one composed of Republicans, one gets things like the slaves freed. I am pleased to oppose the Schiffistas.

 

Lindsey Graham, a good Senator with extensive legal expertise plans to call Adam Schiff as a witness should it reach the Senate.

 

Garland was as dead in the water as was Robert Bork. Democrats with no shame blocked a man who would have been rated as a great justice. When they politicized nominations, they had to expect it would bite them.