“Toobin noted that the president has now nominated about a third of the nation’s federal judges — including Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — and that on nine of the nation’s 13 appeals circuits, a majority of judges were chosen by Democratic presidents. When Obama took office, Republican appointees were a majority on 10 of the circuits.”
That is horribly troubling and without disqualifying or impeaching his judicial appointments, his ramrodding of liberals to our federal courts will devastate the country within a generation.
That’s my big takeaway from the article. He’s left a gigantic mark on the judiciary.
He promised to “fundamentally transform” the nation, and has done so here in a particularly sneaky way - by appointing judges to enact his will for decades after he’s left office. I’ll be an old man, and his nominees will still be on the bench, issuing bad decision after bad decision.
The liberals use the judicial branch as their personalized ultra-veto pen.. they don’t like a law? They challenge it in court and have their robed goons knock it down, creating specious legal “reasoning” out of thin air to do the job. Even when they’re out of office, we’re still fighting their appointees’ dirtywork.
And if Hillary gets in, it’ll be decades before we recover. The judiciary will be gone at that point.
I need some Pepto. It’s waaay too early to work myself up like this.