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July 19, 2021 at 5:15 PM
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Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
While this story is about the tempest in a Twitterpot stirred up over the weekend, it can easily be lifted and dropped on the next episode of defensive outrage from the Federalist Society. This weekend it was Slate, but next time it’ll be The Atlantic. Or The New Republic. Or Cat Fancy. It doesn’t matter what kicks it off, it’ll always play out over a few stages. Just keep this post bookmarked for future reference.
Today’s installment involved a post in Slate by Nicholas Wallace. You remember Nicholas Wallace, right? The Stanford Law School student whose graduation was put on hold because a troika of Federalist Society members had a case of the feels after he produced a parody flyer suggesting that prominent Federalist Society members were deeply involved in the January 6 riots just because… prominent Federalist Society members were, in fact, deeply involved in the January 6 riots. Now graduated, Wallace wrote an a
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Justice is blind. At least, thatâs what weâre told.
But when judgesâ rulings consistently align with the special interests that elected them â even to openly ignoring or rewriting the law â itâs pretty clear the blindfolds are off.
This is what weâve seen from our state Supreme Court. In 2015, the trial bar, unions, and Democrats spent more than $11 million in the most expensive state judicial elections in history at that time to sweep three open seats on the court and gain a 5-2 Democrat majority.
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Since then, the court has issued rulings advancing government unionsâ interests, fulfilling trial lawyersâ dreams, and granting Democratsâ political wishes.
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