[Secret Agent Man]

Since when does Roberts have the power to appoint judges?

Judges do not appoint judges.

The president puts up candidates for the benches.

[White MAGA Man]

Yea but this court is different and super secretive and the Chief Justice is in charge of appointments instead of the president.

[TexasGator]

“Since when does Roberts have the power to appoint judges?”

Since FISA

[bigbob]

Of course that’s wrong, the Chief Justice appoints federal judges to serve on the FISA court. Because that’s the law.

[Captain Compassion]

The new judge is all ready a judge. Actually this is a good thing. The court that the Obama judge can now get another Trump judge.

[deport]

The Act created the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) and enabled it to oversee requests for surveillance warrants by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies (primarily the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency) against suspected foreign intelligence agents inside the U.S. The court is located within the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington, D.C. The court is staffed by eleven judges appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States to serve seven-year terms.

[dirtymac]

He appoints an existing judge to a different bench

[Jim Noble]

Appointment by CJUS is in the FISA court law.

[cpdiii]

“Since when does Roberts have the power to appoint judges?”

The chief justice of the Supreme Court appoints the Fisa judges. This is done in anonymity and is most dangerous.

The FISA judges have done much good and much bad. Their potential for bad far exceeds their potential for good. This court damn near accomplished a soft coup-de-tat. In effect they were part of a cabal of sedition. It must be disbanded.