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Biden s First Judicial Nominees a Sign of What s to Come | Opinion Ilya Shapiro
, Director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute On 4/6/21 at 6:00 AM EDT
When President Joe Biden announced his first slate of judicial nominees last week, all the media attention was on his identity politics. All three picks for federal circuit courts were black women. If confirmed, we would also have the first Muslim district judge, the first Asian American on the D.C. district court and the first woman of color district judge in Maryland. As the White House press release crowed, the federal bench should reflect the full diversity of the American people.
The Atlantic
A Senate hearing for President Biden’s attorney-general nominee is surfacing some big questions.
February 22, 2021
This time around, Judge Merrick Garland is getting his hearing.
Not only is President Joe Biden’s nominee for attorney general receiving a Senate audience, but his confirmation seems very likely, a second difference from his 2016 nomination to the Supreme Court, which was stymied by then–Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
But there’s still an important question at stake in Garland’s nomination, and if confirmed, in his work as attorney general. The Trump presidency has both underscored and made more urgent a running debate over what exactly the U.S. Department of Justice is for.
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It is of course entirely appropriate that on the anniversary of the Fort Sumter bombardment we have to contemplate the Ninth Circuit’s 2-1 vote for Despotism and Tyranny:
The Los Angeles Times April 11, 2011.
By refusing to allow implementation of Arizona’s S.B 1070 law, these Judges are in effect saying the Executive Branch has the option not to enforce Federal law. S.B 1070 is designed to replicate U.S immigration regulations and if the Obamacrats were doing their duty rather than operating a stealth amnesty it would be moot.
The Court also spiced things up by giving foreign governments a role in American law enforcement: