“Polemicists and bomb-throwers, performance artist lawyers who have spent their intellectual lives staking out absurd and often abhorrent legal positions”: Dahlia Litwick considers the President’s judicial nominees at Slate.
George Zornick at The Nation agrees, in this piece titled: “Trump Is Appointing Racist Fake-News Purveyors to the Federal Bench.”
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about whether Courts of Criminal Appeals judges can constitutionally sit on Court of Military Commission Review, including the court at Guantanamo Bay.
The recent withdrawal of three judicial nominees is an aberration from President Trump’s large success in nominating young conservation jurists to the federal bench over the last year.