The federal judiciary’s new rules target “judge shopping.” That’s terrible news for Matthew Kacsmaryk and other partisan judges.
Plaintiffs hoping to reshape federal or state policies will no longer be allowed to choose which judge will hear their case, at least in federal court. A new policy announced Tuesday by the Judicial Conference of the United States, a government body that sets policy for federal courts, targets rules in some federal courts that the conference said “risked creating an appearance of ‘judge shopping.’”
At least in the short term, this policy is a massive victory for the Biden administration — and, indeed, for anyone who believes that federal and state policies should not rise and fall based on one outlier judge’s partisan views.
Texas’s Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, for example, has been very aggressive in bringing lawsuits that challenge Biden administration policies before right-wing judges who have then issued sweeping, nationwide orders blocking those policies — sometimes on highly dubious grounds that are reversed, months later, by the Supreme Court.
You’re giving “Judge” Cannon way more benefit of the doubt than she deserves. Everything she’s done has been calculated and deliberate to torpedo the case and help Trump.
There is no benefit of doubt from me, the problem is that the judicial system is hesitant to punish one of their own. Expecially when the most recent appointees are on-board with the malpractice. Hanlon’s razor is how I normally try to view things and it is deeply concerning that it does not apply here.