A federal judge ruled on Friday that Donald Trump “exceeded the President’s authority” when he sent federalized National Guard troops into Portland.
In a 106-page decision, Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut made permanent an order she issued last month blocking the deployment into the city.
“The evidence demonstrates that these deployments, which were objected to by Oregon’s governor and not requested by the federal officials in charge of protection of the ICE building, exceeded the president’s authority,” the judge wrote.
I get what you’re saying, but since she was appointed by Trump himself, there’s no way she was ALWAYS good…
That’s not true, he made conservative choices, not everyone was in his bag. Being conservative isn’t inherently a bad thing, MAGA has just made them seem like monsters. Good people can make bad choices too.
In the context of American politics? Yes, it is.
Groups like the Heritage Foundation, ALEC, and the Federalist Society (whose lists Trump picks judges from) are all profoundly awful and were all mainstream conservative power brokers for decades before the party went full fascist
Fixed that for you.
True, but judges literally make choices for a living.
To be recommended for any position by the Federalist Society, a judge has to consistently make such awful decisions over a long period of time.
To do that, they’d have to just genuinely be a bad judge who makes so many bad decisions that benefit rich and powerful people that them being good people would be a purely theoretical possibility.