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The White House blasted "activist" federal judges and called on the U.S. Supreme Court to rein them in on Wednesday as President Donald Trump and his allies escalated their attacks against judges who have ruled against his administration. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters it was incumbent upon the Supreme Court to take action against judges who "are acting erroneously." #usa #news #minimarketonlineltd #America #trump #donaldtrump #SupremeCourt #FederalJudges

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MINIMARKET ONLINE LTD

The White House blasted "activist" federal judges and called on the U.S. Supreme Court to rein them in on Wednesday as President Donald Trump and his allies escalated their attacks against judges who have ruled against his administration. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters it was incumbent upon the Supreme Court to take action against judges who "are acting erroneously." #usa #news #minimarketonlineltd #America #trump #donaldtrump #SupremeCourt #FederalJudges

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DoomsdaysCW

'Full-Scale #Authoritarian Takeover': #Vance and #Musk Take Aim at #FederalJudges

"We must push back hard against these next leaps down the pathway to #tyranny," said one Democratic in the House.

by Jon Queally
Feb 09, 2025

"Facing a string of judicial rulings in recent days that have struck down or at least put on hold a variety of efforts by the Trump administration that appeared to overstep its executive authority, both Vice President JD Vance and billionaire oligarch Elon Musk on Sunday took aim at the power of judges by saying their powers—despite being the recognized co-equal and third branch of the U.S. government—should be curbed or disregarded.

"'If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal,' Vance tweeted Sunday morning, in a legally dubious post. Despite the claim, military generals are not free—either from laws of war, international human rights treaties, or chains of command—to do anything they please.

"'If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal,' Vance continued. 'Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.'

"Shortly before Vance's tweet, Musk, the world's richest person and who has been tasked by Trump to run the Department of Government Efficiency( DOGE) effort to dismantle key government agencies and programs, floated the idea that life-time appointed judges should, based on a set annual quota, be subject to termination by the political party in power. Currently, both chambers of Congress and the White House are controlled by Republicans.

"'I'd like to propose that the worst 1% of appointed judges, as determined by elected bodies, be fired every year,' Musk said on Sunday morning. 'This will weed out the most corrupt and least competent.'

"Over the last week, federal judges have intervened to block DOGE efforts to have unfettered access to a key Treasury Department payment system and also blocked the so-called 'Fork in the Road' offer to federal workers put forth by the unsanctioned Musk-led team at #DOGE.

"After a U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer responded to a suit brought by 18 state attorneys general on Friday by blocking DOGE access to the Treasury system, Musk retweeted a message suggesting that the best thing to do might be to ignore the order."

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#Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #ResistFascism #USPol

Common Dreams · 'Full-Scale Authoritarian Takeover': Vance and Musk Take Aim at Federal Judges | Common Dreams"We must push back hard against these next leaps down the pathway to tyranny," said one Democratic in the House.
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Andreas K

@heidilifeldman So they just need to take the next 2–4 years to make the situation (semi-)permanent.

Orbán in Hungary took the better part of a decade to do that, but he started with an intact system. But the #GOP has captured #SCOTUS for decades to come, controls #Congress and the #WH and how many #FederalJudges have been selected by #Trump45 ? And compliant media, surveillance internet companies, militarized police, and an oligarchy of billionaires to help out.

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Nonilex

Eventually, the Framers of the #Constitution arrived at the system we have today. To preserve #independence, #FederalJudges are nominated by #POTUS but must be approved by #Senate. #Congress sets #judicial #salaries, which cannot be reduced. Judges have lifetime tenure, so they don’t fear that they will be removed for any particular decision. They can be impeached by Congress for #misconduct, but this is rare—only 15 federal #judges have been #impeached since 1789, all but 5 of them before 1937.

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Nonilex

“The controversy about the decision to fly an #UpsideDown American #flag outside the home of Justice #Alito recalls St. Paul’s admonition that while some things may be lawful, ‘not all things are helpful.’

“I can offer no opinion as to whether the flag display at the justice’s house was #unlawful. I won’t even opine whether my flying the flag upside-down at my house would have constituted a violation of the code of #ethics that binds me & all #FederalJudges — except the justices.

#SCOTUS#law
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Nonilex

Judge #Lamberth’s move is the latest in a wider public push by #FederalJudges in Washington to counter what polling shows is an uptick in public #acceptance of the #violent breach of the #US Capitol on #Jan6, 2021, fueled by Trump’s escalating rhetoric casting defendants as “political prisoners” & “hostages” who did nothing wrong. #Trump has pledged to pardon #J6 #insurrection defendants, including those who assaulted police.

#law#PoliticalViolence#Radicalization
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Nonilex

#US #Judge Royce C. #Lamberth is the latest in broad, public push by #FederalJudges against #Jan6 #revisionism

[Another] #Republican-appointed judge said he plans to send a written response to supporters of a Jan 6 rioter who claimed that he did nothing wrong, warning the man’s friends & family members that justifying #PoliticalViolence risks further #violence in a “vicious cycle” that “rots republics.”

#Radicalization #extremism #MAGA #Republicans #DomesticTerrorism
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/20

The Washington Post · Judge to backers of Jan. 6 rioter: Don’t condone political violence By Spencer S. Hsu
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Carolleisa

“The issue here is not simply that Roberts is cherry-picking numbers to suit his arguments.
Roberts, who by all accounts is acutely aware of the judiciary’s public perception, is apparently unwilling to see these conflicts for what they are: a crisis of institutional legitimacy.”
#Federaljudges #Conglictofinterest
citizensforethics.org/news/ana

CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in WashingtonJustice Roberts gets it wrong: federal judges’ conflicts of interest threaten the entire judiciary - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in WashingtonJustice Roberts is downplaying the conflicts of interest crisis within the judiciary which Congress should take decisive action to remedy.
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