Pax Christus (@PaxChristus)

What you have to understand about the American federal court system is that the capacity for a bad judge to do bad is infinitely larger than the capacity for a good judge to do good. Good judges generally want to follow precedent and not buck hundreds of years of case law. That’s part of the nature of being a good judge. Bad judges, meanwhile, have basically infinite power to do bad. The system gives them country-wide power to invalidate or rewrite laws. This means that well funded NGOs like the ACLU do what’s called ‘forum shopping’. It entails looking through hundreds of federal judges across the entire country to find the one most likely to be sympathetic to their case, and then filing the case under them. This is how you got the infamous Hawaiian judge blocking Trump’s travel ban, and now random judges in Nevada throwing out 100+ years of immigration law. The strategy of “just appoint better judges” has always failed for a reason. To borrow some language from leftoids; the harms of American judicial power are a legitimately systemic issue that “good judges” could never fix from the inside. https://national-justice.com/nevada-federal-judge-unilaterally-upends-american-immigration-law-because-its-racist