Trump is remaking the federal judiciary (while the press freaks out over h

[euphemia]

The media remains so caught up with the president’s tweets that it has missed Mr. Trump’s project to transform the rest of the federal judiciary. The president is stocking the courts with a class of brilliant young textualists bearing little relation to even their Reagan or Bush predecessors. Mr. Trump’s nastygrams to Bob Corker will be a distant memory next week. Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett’s influence on the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could still be going strong 40 years from now.

Link (http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/10/13/kimberley-strassel-trump-is-remaking-federal-judiciary-while-press-freaks-out-over-his-tweets.html)

[angelatc]

Good article!

A related story about the woman mentioned in the article: (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/6/al-franken-charges-amy-coney-barrett-a-trump-judic/)


A Democratic senator tried to tie one of President Trump’s judicial nominees to a “hate group” Wednesday, saying the woman’s decision to speak at an event sponsored by Alliance Defending Freedom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_Defending_Freedom#Criticism), a religious liberty law firm, makes her unfit to sit on a federal appeals court.

Sen. Al Franken lobbed the charge at a hearing for Amy Coney Barrett, Mr. Trump’s pick to fill a seat on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

A quick search indicates the SPLC has labeled the ADF as a hate group because they're Christian.

[Raginfridus]

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[euphemia]

Trump stirs the pot as a distraction to the real work that is being done. Let the media be distracted and let the good work happen. It's a nuisance I can tolerate.

[angelatc]

Trump stirs the pot as a distraction to the real work that is being done. Let the media be distracted and let the good work happen. It's a nuisance I can tolerate.

Every time he does something I don't like, I end up remembering what Hillary would have done. Sometimes it's the exact same thing but sometimes the differences are stark. The Judicial appointments are the latter.

[phill4paul]

Good article!

A related story about the woman mentioned in the article: (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/6/al-franken-charges-amy-coney-barrett-a-trump-judic/)



A quick search indicates the SPLC has labeled the ADF as a hate group because they're Christian.

There's law suits going on over the SPLC "hate group" claims. That is what is needed to shut them down. Lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit.


On Tuesday, D. James Kennedy Ministries (DJKM) filed a lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the charity navigation organization GuideStar, and Amazon for defamation, religious discrimination, and trafficking in falsehood. The SPLC listed DJKM as a "hate group," while GuideStar also categorized it in those terms, and Amazon kept the ministry off of its charity donation program, Amazon Smile.

"We embarked today on a journey to right a terrible wrong," Dr. Frank Wright, president and CEO at DJKM, said in a statement Tuesday. "Those who knowingly label Christian ministries as 'hate' groups, solely for subscribing to the historic Christian faith, are either woefully uninformed or willfully deceitful. In the case of the Southern Poverty Law Center, our lawsuit alleges the latter."

The SPLC has labeled DJKM an "anti-LGBT hate group" for its opposition to same-sex marriage and transgenderism. "These false and illegal characterizations have a chilling effect on the free exercise of religion and on religious free speech for all people of faith," Wright declared.

"After having given the SPLC an opportunity to retract, we have undertaken this legal action, seeking a trial by a jury of our peers, to preserve our own rights under the law and to defend the religious free speech rights of all Americans," the DJKM president concluded.

The lawsuit laid out charges against the SPLC, GuideStar, and Amazon. "SPLC acted knowingly, intentionally, and with actual malice in publishing the Hate Map that included the Ministry and in publishing the SPLC Transmissions to GuideStar that included the ministry," the suit alleged. "SPLC's conduct in making these publications was beyond the reckless disregard for the truth standard required by Alabama law for punitive damages."

https://pjmedia.com/faith/2017/08/23/d-james-kennedy-ministries-sues-splc-guidestar-and-amazon-for-defamation/