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Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Federal Judges Association Wimps Out

H/T TGP which links to CNN, reporting that the Federal Judges Association that had scheduled an "emergency meeting" to discuss the interventions of Trump and Barr in the Roger Stone case has "postponed" their emergency meeting. Tuesday morning Trump had tweeted:

“I hope the Federal Judges Association will discuss the tremendous FISA Court abuse that has taken place with respect to the Mueller Investigation Scam, including the forging of documents and knowingly using the fake and totally discredited Dossier before the Court. Thank you!”

From the CNN report:

A group of federal judges hastily postponed an emergency meeting that was scheduled to take place Wednesday to discuss concerns about President Donald Trump and the Justice Department’s intervention in politically charged cases. 
Megan Cruz, the executive director of the Federal Judges Association, said the meeting was set to occur Wednesday afternoon and the group was considering whether to issue a statement afterwards. But later in the day, Cruz said that the conference call between the 14 judges who serve as officers on the Executive Committee had been postponed. 
Cruz offered no further details and did not respond to questions asking whether the group had been asked to reschedule the meeting …

1. Federal judges--wimps. Just like other bureaucrats. It's easy to be brave and speak to power when everybody scrapes and bows and calls you 'Your honor.' Not so much when you realize that you could end up on the receiving end from someone with a bully pulpit who never backs down.

2. Perhaps Barr will reflect that there's something to be said for a President who uses Twitter and who has his back. Barr would have been taking this flack even if Trump hadn't said/tweeted a word about the Stone sentencing.

3. I'd also bet that many judges gave the officers of the association an earful.

11 comments:

  1. In other news..... scouting reports indicate Mini Mike is getting his butt handed to him in the first 30 minutes of the Dem debate tonight. Everyone is piling on him, and he can't handle the heat.

    Many questions also about what he's standing on to see over podium. The answer is obvious: $400 million of advertising -- it elevated him to debate qualification status after the DNC changed the rules, so it should be trivial for it to levitate Bloomberg a few inches during the debate.

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  2. When I get a little discouraged about Donald's tweeting, he puts out a gem “I hope the Federal Judges Association will discuss the tremendous FISA Court abuse that has taken place with respect to the Mueller Investigation Scam, including the forging of documents and knowingly using the fake and totally discredited Dossier before the Court. Thank you!”


    He is right on. The djudges can ignore the FISA abuse (not that I'm claiming they can do anything about it), but they sure can go after the President.

    Can the Supreme Court put the kibosh on the Federal Judge Association? And does this cabal have any authority other than "prestige"?

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  3. Another FLASH report from the Dem debate:

    >>Shem Horne
    @Shem_Infinite
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    Bloomberg again stutters through his answer and doesn't say how many NDA's there are and also doesn't say he will release the women from their NDA's you can't overstate how BAD this night is going for Bloomberg. This is amazing.<<

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  4. Back to the sudden unexplained cancellation of the judges' Association meeting...

    You don't suppose they got word that something very bad is going to happen to Judge Jackson tomorrow, such as her being frog-marched out of the courthouse in handcuffs?

    (Wishful thinking, again...)

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  5. Wow... another illusion destroyed.

    I used to think judges were all about justice and stood up to wrongdoing and wrongdoers.

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  6. DJT mentioned the tarmac meeting of Lynch and BClinton tonight in AZ. lol

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  7. 1. Federal judges--wimps. Just like other bureaucrats. It's easy to be brave and speak to power when everybody scrapes and bows and calls you 'Your honor.' Not so much when you realize that you could end up on the receiving end from someone with a bully pulpit who never backs down.

    This. ^^^ So much this.

    I've known several good judges and a few great ones. But there are quite a few who managed to fail upward as attorneys.

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  8. They couldn't agree on the statement to issue after their EMERGENCY meeting. LOL!

    So apparently, not an emergency. Therefore, no meeting.

    Like diplomats/diplomacy where signing-on to the communique at the conclusion of the meeting is the sole purpose for the meeting. And the communique has been written prior to the meeting.

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    1. I suppose that says something about the legal profession in general.

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