Trump The AUTHORITARIAN
"I will have to review Nostradamus’ quatrains regarding future predictions and see where it speak of the orange faced usurper as the ruiner of the great nation. It has got to be there someplace."
I love it! It's not often these forums produce a belly laugh, but you did it!
Yup.
Btw, this was interesting.
Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor
President Trump promised to fill the appeals courts with “my judges.” They have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges.
President Trump has found a powerful but obscure bulwark in the appeals court judges he appointed during his first term. They have voted overwhelmingly in his favor when his administration’s actions have been challenged in court in his current term, a New York Times analysis of their 2025 records shows.
Time and again, appellate judges chosen by Mr. Trump in his first term reversed rulings made by district court judges in his second, clearing the way for his policies and gradually eroding a perception early last year that the legal system was thwarting his efforts to amass presidential power.
The president’s appointees voted to allow his policies to take effect 133 times and voted against them only 12 times. Ninety-two percent of their total votes were in favor of the administration. That figure far outstrips support for Mr. Trump’s agenda from appeals court judges appointed by other Republican presidents, and from Mr. Trump’s appointees to the district courts.
The uniformity of the judges’ votes is “reason for serious concern,” said Mark L. Wolf, a former federal judge nominated by President Ronald Reagan. Judge Wolf recently retired so he could speak more freely about what he has characterized as the threat that Mr. Trump posed to the rule of law.
“If you’re an impartial judge, the same party is not going to win every time,” he said. “Because the facts are different, the law is different, and so the result is often going to be different.”
Mr. Trump’s appellate appointees allowed him to deploy the National Guard in cities over the objections of state and local leaders. They delayed for more than six months a judge’s inquiry into why planes carrying Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador did not turn around, despite a court order. They signed off on the withholding of millions of dollars in federal funds from public school districts.
Changes to the judicial confirmation process have made it easier for more ideologically extreme judges to win Senate approval. Mr. Trump has nominated judges who are aligned with his maximalist view of presidential power, part of a long-running conservative project to concentrate more authority within the White House. And a trio of Trump appellate appointees in Washington, where many lawsuits over the administration’s agenda have been filed, have voted for a large number of rulings in his favor.
Mr. Trump has also taken an unusually active role in trying to shape judicial behavior.
He has called judges who ruled against his administration “radical” and “lunatic.” He has praised judges who rule the way he wants, calling them “highly respected” and “brilliant.”
“You could have court of appeals judges auditioning in case a Supreme Court seat opens up,” said Morgan Hazelton, a political science professor at Saint Louis University and the co-author of a book on collegiality in the appellate courts.
Appeals court judges work in randomly chosen groups known as panels, which review appeals of final decisions by district court judges, who work alone. Panels, as well as the Supreme Court, can also intervene in the middle of cases, ordering district court judges to take specific actions while litigation over an issue proceeds.
When Mr. Trump’s policies are temporarily blocked by district court judges, appeals courts can issue “administrative stays,” temporary rulings that effectively reverse the lower court’s orders and let contested policies take effect. Administrative stays are supposed to be temporary but can remain in place for weeks or even months. In many cases, they are replaced by a more lasting stay, known as a “stay pending appeal,” that remains in place while the appellate court considers the case.
The Times analysis tracked both kinds of stays, as well as the final rulings that appellate courts made after considering arguments from both sides.
Mr. Trump’s nominees sided with him consistently across all three kinds of rulings, voting in his favor 97 percent of the time on administrative stays, 88 percent of the time on stays pending appeal, and 100 percent of the time on final rulings.
If the parties in a case disagree with an appeals court’s final ruling, they can seek further intervention by the Supreme Court, which accepts roughly 1 percent of the thousands of petitions it receives each year. That limited bandwidth means that the appeals courts — which handle more than 40,000 cases annually — are powerful gatekeepers that serve as the main check on district court judges. And the legal precedents they set are binding on the individual circuits they oversee.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Mr. Trump helped convince traditional Republican voters that he was reliable by promising to pick conservative judges, forging an alliance with the leaders of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group, to identify candidates.
“If it’s my judges, you know how they’re going to decide,” Mr. Trump told leaders of evangelical Christian groups in June that year.
In all, Mr. Trump selected 54 appellate judges in his first term, the most of any president in a four-year term since Jimmy Carter, who had the one-time advantage of a federal law that expanded the judiciary. Mr. Trump in his second term has appointed another six.
Mr. Trump signed 225 executive orders last year; Mr. Biden signed 162 over four years in office. The scale of Mr. Trump’s new policies drew consistent pushback from district court judges. They issued dozens of nationwide injunctions — when one judge’s ruling blocks administration policies everywhere, for everyone, a power recently pared back by the Supreme Court. That was more than in any previous presidency except for Mr. Trump’s first term.
Those injunctions put tremendous power into the hands of the appeals courts, the government’s first stop when it believes a judge has gone too far.
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Oh it's normal, it's reality, it's how the system is supposed to work... Unless the rulling is against Trump. Then, the judges are corrupt, leftist, political activists, radical rogue judges, judicial warfare, etc.
Hypocrites.And if it is FOR Trump the exact same words come from the other side!
There is no truth, no honesty, no morality in our government. On either side of the aisle.
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