One thing I worry about is that the partisan prosecutorial campaign against him will sour him on the prosecution side generally, and will allow/tempt him to indulge even more than before pro-criminal nonsense like the First Step Act. Whether it will affect his judicial selections is harder to say.
Great post, subtle and nuanced as usual. I suspect Trump would continue to try to pick conservative judges, but his Supreme Court record shows how hard it is to get movement conservative judges on the court. By and large his three appointees have hued the conservative line, but all three of them have added votes to the dark side from time to time. As I said in an earlier post, it's very hard to find judges who can fully ignore and overcome the liberal judicial bulwark build in the last 85 years. Jim Dueholm
Oy. And surely you realize that to the Washington Post and company, judges that rule as the liberals do are considered neutral while judges who adhere to a traditional standard of judicial review are regarded as radicals.
One thing I worry about is that the partisan prosecutorial campaign against him will sour him on the prosecution side generally, and will allow/tempt him to indulge even more than before pro-criminal nonsense like the First Step Act. Whether it will affect his judicial selections is harder to say.
Great post, subtle and nuanced as usual. I suspect Trump would continue to try to pick conservative judges, but his Supreme Court record shows how hard it is to get movement conservative judges on the court. By and large his three appointees have hued the conservative line, but all three of them have added votes to the dark side from time to time. As I said in an earlier post, it's very hard to find judges who can fully ignore and overcome the liberal judicial bulwark build in the last 85 years. Jim Dueholm
Oy. And surely you realize that to the Washington Post and company, judges that rule as the liberals do are considered neutral while judges who adhere to a traditional standard of judicial review are regarded as radicals.