The US has been a dual state ever since its founding to various degrees. It is now back in a dual state almost as bad as when slaves in the South were the norm and the years of segregation.
Due process means little when ICE can go judge shopping in Texas.
#DualState #MassDeportation #ElSalvador #Gulag #JudgeShopping #Texas #HumanRights #Humanity #Slavery #PoC #Law #SCOTUS #Trumpistan #Injustice
New court filing: #PerkinsCoie v. #DOJ re #Trump #ExecutiveOrder punishing the #law firm
The Trump had filed to disqualify Judge Beryl Howell, basic #JudgeShopping.
Denied.
“Though this adage is commonplace, and the tactic overused, it is called to mind by defendants' pending motion to disqualify this Court: ‘When you can't attack the message, attack the messenger.’“
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278290/gov.uscourts.dcd.278290.36.0_1.pdf
The case is going to be heard by a panel of judges in the #FifthCircuit Court of Appeals. Of the Circuit Court judges, only 5 out of 26 were appointed by a Democratic president.
#ElonMusk & #JeffBezos have gone #DistrictShopping instead of #JudgeShopping. It would be hard to find another District that was more designed for #conservative #Republican goals.
Musk's X seeks to steer lawsuits to conservative court in Texas | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/legal/musks-x-seeks-steer-lawsuits-conservative-court-texas-2024-10-17/
“Something else that makes the cases in Texas unique is that laws that protect people and groups from meritless lawsuits do not apply in Texas’ federal courts, under a 2019 appeals court decision. That effectively means that if Musk loses the cases, he will not have to pay the defendants’ legal fees, as he would in many states.”
#elonmusk draining resources from #MediaMatters
#JudgeShopping #JudicialSystem #reform
#twittermigration https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/112952224439846046
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#ChuckSchumer vows #SCOTUS reform will be ‘a very big priority’ if #Democrats win
#Senate Majority Leader Schumer has big plans for the #SupremeCourt & federal #judiciary if Democrats win the 2024 elections, from imposing #ethical standards & preventing litigants from #JudgeShopping to legislatively reversing its rulings on #abortion & presidential #immunity.
#law
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/schumer-vows-supreme-court-reforms-democrats-win-2024-elections-rcna164719
Do you remember the days when US conservatives used to lament in high flown language the threat to popular sovereignty posed by an "activist judiciary legislating from the bench"?
Now they seem happy that important decisions for people all over the USA are handed down by a lone bigot in Amarillo, TX.
Schumer, McConnell introduce judge shopping bills | The Texas Tribune
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/11/judge-shopping-texas-amarillo-kasmaryk-senate/
#USPolitics #USLaw #USConservatism #JudgeShopping #Texas #MatthewKasmaryk
Despite recent troubling actions by the UC which undermine the legal rights of public employees, PERB remains the right avenue for us to defend the safety and integrity of our workplaces.
#StandUpUC #Labor #PublicEmployees #California #PERB #UCLA #JudgeShopping
For far too long, Americans have watched as the corporate lobby and right-wing activists have shopped around for their forum and their judges -- all for the purpose of destroying hard-fought, pro-consumer reforms. That’s right: they get to choose the court and the judge that’s most likely to rule in their favor. This practice, especially since Trump’s right-wing appointments to the judiciary, has become commonplace. So, corporations and right-wingers have won cases that amount to nationwide attacks on consumer and civil rights, reproductive healthcare, LGBTQ+ rights, and our environment. This practice makes a mockery of the principle of fair and equal administration of justice. The Fifth Circuit -- which covers Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi -- is now the favorite place for right-wing judicial activism, and the main forum in which the Chamber of Commerce and other corporate lobbies try to tear down important consumer and investor protections. The Fifth Circuit ruled the funding mechanism of the successful watchdog Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unconstitutional, a decision so crazy that even the right-wing Supreme Court reversed it. But the Fifth Circuit has also produced rulings that stopped investor protections vis-a-vis private equity and hedge funds and that froze regulations aimed at stopping lending discrimination. And a few weeks ago, it stopped CFPB’s plan to cap credit card late fees. And, of course, the Fifth Circuit has been ground zero for the destruction of reproductive rights. The infamous Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade was a product of the Fifth Circuit. Also, right-wingers figured out that if they file a reproductive rights case in Amarillo, Texas, it automatically goes to Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a virulent opponent of reproductive rights. He tried to ban the abortion pill, mifepristone, a case now before the Supreme Court. In March, the Judicial Conference, which serves as the national coordinating body for the federal courts, adopted a policy to curb judge shopping by pushing for random case assignments. However, following heavy criticism from Republican Senators, the Judicial Conference backtracked and announced that the new policy was optional. Judges in the Fifth Circuit promptly announced they would ignore the policy. So now it’s up to Congress to act to prevent this abusive and justice-undermining practice -- and Senators Schumer, Hirono and Whitehouse have recently introduced legislation, the End Judge Shopping Act, to codify the Judicial Conference’s new policy into law and curtail the dangerous practice of judge-shopping. Click “start writing” to send a letter to your Senators demanding the passage of the End Judge Shopping Act become now. Based on where you live and whether your Senators are already co-sponsors of the legislation, we’ll have different versions of the letter for you to submit.
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