We Need to Talk About Why Trump Judicial Nominees Won’t Talk About Obergefell

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It could be still a roe

Some of Trump’s judicial candidates refused confirmation hearings to recognize that the 2015 Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, deleting state prohibitions on homosexual marriage as unconstitutional, has been properly decided. According to an analysis of JP Collins on the Balls and Strikes legal website, Eric Tung, whom Trump appointed the American court of appeal for the ninth circuit, “said only:” The Supreme Court has granted such a right. ” William Mercer, a candidate for the American district court in the Montana district, said that Obergefell was “a precedent binding”, but refused to “note the Supreme Court”.

As Collins points out, these verbal gymnastics to avoid saying that the case has been properly decided to reflect those of the candidates of the Supreme Court of Trump who said that Roe c. Wade was a precedent but would not say that he was properly decided – then voted to overthrow him.

You could say that equality of marriage is different from abortion. Obergefell is only 10 years old and Roe had decades. But the most important characteristic that the two decisions share is the enmity of the Christian right and its determination to overthrow them, regardless of the number of years or decades.

Even before the court decided Obergefell in 2015, the Christian right already planned to treat it as eggs. The decision of the Supreme Court in 1973, they argued, was not the end of the issue of abortion but rather the beginning. They used money, the media, political power, religion and incessant organization to use abortion to stimulate politics and shape the judiciary. Their plans for Obergefell and LGBTQ rights are not different.

The new great law

In this story of the New York Times on the Washington Litigation Group, one of the many new law firms has been formed to challenge hundreds of Trump administrative actions and policies without law, we learn that one of the members of the firm’s steering committee, Peter Keisler, was a founder of the federalist company and a former manager of George W. Bush. “We have never seen this kind of systematic effort of a government to use all the possible levers of government power against perceived opponents,” Keisler told Times about the need for the new company.

The history of Keisler – and his trajectory of the founder of the federalist society to Trump Critic – are in fact even more interesting than history reveals. Bush had appointed Keisler to the American Court of Appeal for the DC circuit in 2006, but he was never confirmed (the filibusier was still in place for legal appointments, then the Democrats took over the Senate). The Democrats resisted to put Keisler at the DC Court of Appeal, often a springboard to the Supreme Court, in part because the Bush administration would have seen Keisler, former clerk of judge Anthony Kennedy and judge Robert Bork, as potential material of the High Court. A very intriguing alternative story there.

Whitehouse keeps attention to the Boasberg Contemps DC Tour Circuit

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) wrote to the chief judge of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, raising the questions on the reasons why a panel of three judges on the DC circuit maintained an administrative suspension for the attraction of the contempt initiated by the chief judge of the district court, James Boasberg, in the case contesting the disappearance of the prison of Venezuel At Cecot prison in El Salvador prison. The stay remained in place while the Senate Republicans confirmed the senior official of the Ministry of Justice Emil Bove, who, according to a report by reporter, urged the lawyers online to say “to kiss” the ordinances of the district court. “If a court in the United States was used to stall the outrage procedure, in order to create a window for the confirmation of an individual’s Senate at the heart of these outrageous procedures … It would be an important blow for independence and integrity of the judicial branch,” wrote Whitehouse.

The Trump administration takes its global transphobia

In the United Nations, the American delegates have repeatedly condemned “gender ideology” or “strengthened the support of the administration to the language which” recognizes that women are biologically female and men are biologically male “” since Trump took up his duties in January, reports Propublica. This is part of a broader model of Trump officials attacking transgender rights internationally, even to the point of opposing the use of the word “gender”.

Ice to target generation Z with the recruitment of employment Blitz

Immigration and customs application seek to contract an advertising company to help it “dominate” social media with a recruitment blitz intended for generation Z, in order to hire more than 14,000 people to work for the agency, according to 404 media.

An LLC obtains 231 million dollars in federal funds to direct a secret ice installation in Texas

The El Paso Times has aerial photographs of the non -public construction of a new center for the detention of ice immigrants of 5,000 beds under construction in Fort Bliss in Texas. Acquisition Logistics LLC, a company from Virginie, obtained a contract of 231 878 229 at a fixed price “to establish and operate”, the newspaper reports the newspaper. In other news (lack of) transparency, in Florida, Hunter Walker of TPM notes that the contract and other public documents relating to the prison of Alligator Alcatraz have disappeared, perhaps illegally. And in other news from the grotesque ice prison camp, the secretary of the Ministry of Internal Security, Kristi Noem, announced yesterday an Alligator Alcatraz lookalike in Indiana – Speedway Slammer “.

RFK, Jr. Axes Government Support for Marvel Mecical

The Secretary of Health and Social Services has targeted health and humans directly by announcing $ 500 million in federal contracts to develop vaccines using mRNA technology – such as COVVI -19 vaccines and developing vaccines to combat bird flu and other respiratory viruses.

Maxwell’s transfer to the club has fed a “parody of justice”, explains the former prison official

Former prisons office officials are angry with the transfer of the condemned accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum security camp in Texas. “The move of a sexual offender serving 20 years in a frame of Country Club is offensive for the victims and others serving similar crimes,” said Robert Hood, a former business prisons chief, NBC News.

Covered

As expected, the chairman of the James Comer Chamber’s Supervisory Committee (R -KY) has published assignments in the Epstein saga, notably in Hillary and Bill Clinton, and the former FBI directors of the FBI James Comey and Robert Mueller – part of the Maga effort to divert the attention of Trump’s connections to Epstein and to blame the Democrats for everything. In particular, Note Axios, Alex Acosta, the former federal prosecutor who negotiated the 2008 “darling” advocacy agreement for Epstein in Florida and later became the secretary of the Labor in the first administration of Trump, is not on the assignment list. However, he is on the board of directors of Newsmax.

Tacos for meteorologists

The personnel management office has authorized the rehabilitation of 450 meteorologists, hydrologists and radar technicians who have been ax of the National Weather Service by the Ministry of Government.

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