Republicans Must Rally Around Trump’s Judicial Picks
Kurt Schlichter
If there’s anything that the last six months have taught us, it’s that appointing the right judges is critical, especially since the current version of Our Democracy we’re being sold holds that, “Yeah, it’s OK to elect a president and a Congress, but to actually do anything you need the approval of a herd of unelected swells in robes.” This is a sad state of affairs; when I was in the Persian Gulf, I don’t remember any of my troops telling me that they were very proud to be fighting to defend the ability of a bunch of Ivy Leaguers who largely couldn’t cut it actually litigating to rule over them based not on the law but on what was going to get them the happiest happy ending from the regime media and their cronies at the country club.
Donald Trump made his first round of judicial picks, and he’s hitting it out of the park with exactly the kind of nominees we need to help fix the broken bench. Let’s take Emil J. Bove, the president’s nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The federal Courts of Appeals are very crucial. They handle appeals from the district courts, which are the federal trial courts. The Courts of Appeals are the final stop for the vast majority of cases since the Supreme Court only picks about 50 or so cases a year out of the thousands of Courts of Appeals rulings. It’s a big deal, and because it involves lifetime tenure, you need to make sure you’ve got the right guy or gal.
You want somebody who has been there and done that. Look at Bove’s résumé. He clerked for two highly respected judges – that’s where a young lawyer helps a judge write his opinions, giving him an insight into how it’s done that you just don’t get anywhere else. Next, he spent about 10 years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, which was then legendary for rooting out political corruption and mob influence in the Big Apple. He was a partner in a prominent law firm in private practice, but he gave up the big bucks to go back to the Department of Justice as the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General under President Trump and sort out that mess. His credentials are impeccable. Prosecutor. Defense attorney. Department of Justice official.
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