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Sessions going after outrageous judge's rulings
Posted on 10/16/18 at 5:41 am
Posted on 10/16/18 at 5:41 am
I say git'er done. It's about time. This needs to be done at state levels also.
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Sessions vows 'emergency' Supreme Court battles amid 'outrageous' discovery rulings by federal judges
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday lit into federal judges for what he called a dramatic uptick in "outrageous" decisions threatening to interfere with the separation of powers by exposing internal White House deliberations.
In a fiery speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington, Sessions warned that "once we go down this road in American government, there is no turning back." He vowed to take "these discovery fights to the Supreme Court in emergency postures. ... We intend to fight this, and we intend to win."
Sessions specifically singled out New York district court judge Jesse M. Furman, who ruled that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross could be questioned in an ongoing lawsuit concerning the legality of the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Furman's decision, Sessions said, contradicts longstanding statutory provisions that protect certain executive branch discussions from disclosure, in order to encourage free and open deliberations by executive branch officials. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit, including several liberal states, are arguing in part that the White House added the citizenship question for political reasons.
The judge wants "to hold a trial over the inner workings of a Cabinet secretary’s mind," and inappropriately allow inquiry into the motivations for the Trump administration's decisions, Sessions said.
Furman's order, which was upheld by a New York federal appellate court, has been stayed by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The full Supreme Court is expected to decide the issue soon.
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Posted on 10/16/18 at 5:44 am to Homesick Tiger
Good. Hopefully this is a sign of good things to come from Sessions.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 5:53 am to BurningHeart
Forget Sessions, the context is something long overdo. Judges overturning referendums two days before an election even though those referendums made it to the ballot taking every step legally to get there. burns my arse quicker than anything. He/she basically takes the process away from the people and gives it to one person.
That's like taking a family vote to see where you're going on vacation then daddy saying "nope, we're going here".
That's like taking a family vote to see where you're going on vacation then daddy saying "nope, we're going here".
Posted on 10/16/18 at 6:04 am to Homesick Tiger
Sessions is right, the judge does not need discovery to make a decision on these cases. Its all political, if he can force discovery then the executive branch will have to turn over all discussions, emails, memos, etc associated with contacts Wilbur Ross has had with the executive branch, EVERYTHING.
It will become a Mueller investigation EVERYTIME something ends up being taken to court for a challenge. And not just the executive branch, judges have started to do this at the federal agency level as well.
Given the leaks to the press, can you imagine what a clusterfrick this would become???????? 100s of little mueller investigations going on throughout the administration, leaking 1000s of times to the press.
It is just horseshite, and we have to start looking at impeaching some of these judges for overreach, not easy to do, but it will certainly send a message, you want to be a politician, run for office, dont legislate from the bench.
It will become a Mueller investigation EVERYTIME something ends up being taken to court for a challenge. And not just the executive branch, judges have started to do this at the federal agency level as well.
Given the leaks to the press, can you imagine what a clusterfrick this would become???????? 100s of little mueller investigations going on throughout the administration, leaking 1000s of times to the press.
It is just horseshite, and we have to start looking at impeaching some of these judges for overreach, not easy to do, but it will certainly send a message, you want to be a politician, run for office, dont legislate from the bench.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 7:20 am to Homesick Tiger
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Furman's order, which was upheld by a New York federal appellate court, has been stayed by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
This is the most shocking sentence in the entire article.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 7:24 am to Homesick Tiger
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The plaintiffs in the lawsuit, including several liberal states, are arguing in part that the White House added the citizenship question for political reasons.
Then the SCOTUS will rule that's a political question and outside a court's jurisdiction. Had they argued race or ethnicity or national origin, they would have had a better chance.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 8:07 am to Homesick Tiger
I know a lot of people hate Sessions. He dropped the ball on the mueller fiasco and Nov 7th is probably his last day on the job.
However, Sessions has been killing it on the immigration front.
LINK ]Jeff Sessions Is Executing Trump’s Immigration Plans With a Quiet, Efficient Brutality
Changing government through democratic elections is a “structural flaw”
However, Sessions has been killing it on the immigration front.
LINK ]Jeff Sessions Is Executing Trump’s Immigration Plans With a Quiet, Efficient Brutality
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“We’re seeing Attorney General Sessions take advantage of the structural flaws of the immigration court system,” says Laura Lynch, senior policy counsel at the American Immigration Lawyers Association, which has joined the judges union in asking Congress to make the immigration courts independent of the Justice Department. Sessions’ changes have been “extremely demoralizing,” says Dana Leigh Marks, president emeritus of NAIJ. “I’ve been in the field for 40 years, and I have never seen morale among immigration judges so low.”
Changing government through democratic elections is a “structural flaw”
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Schmidt, the retired immigration judge, says he’s worried even more new judges will come from prosecutorial backgrounds. “Who would really want to work for Sessions given his record, his public statements?” he asks. Under Sessions, he says, the immigration court “has become a deportation railway.”
This post was edited on 10/16/18 at 8:08 am
Posted on 10/16/18 at 8:16 am to Homesick Tiger
Probably not good for the plaintiff's that RBG stayed the lower court's order until SCOTUS can hear the case.
Also, if we could get a Speaker of the House with any balls whatsoever and start impeaching these judges , that would be great.
Also, if we could get a Speaker of the House with any balls whatsoever and start impeaching these judges , that would be great.
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