DailyCaller: The White House released President Donald Trump’s eighth slate of judicial nominees Thursday, announcing the nominations of a popular Texas Supreme Court justice and a seasoned religious liberty litigator for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The president’s picks for the 5th Circuit include Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett, U.S. District Judge James Ho, U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt, and Kyle Duncan, former general counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.
Willett in particular is popular with law students and practitioners active in social media. The justice maintains a Twitter account that traffics in law puns, pictures of his family, and relentlessly pro-America imagery, prompting the Texas State Legislature to style Willett the state’s Tweeter Laureate in 2015. Legal ethicists cite his use of the medium as the standard par excellence for social media use by judges.
A devotee of Chick-fil-A, the justice keeps a “satellite office” at a location near his Austin home, to achieve “what Oliver Wendell Holmes called ‘the secret joy of isolated thought.’” MORE
Now let’s see if a corrupt Senate will seat them,!
Previous GOE-e presidents gave us gems such as Souter and Roberts (yeah, thanks a LOT for that one).
President Trump’s leadership in the face of massive opposition has earned him a lot of latitude with me.
The GOP-e, not so much. None.
If I were on the twitters, I’d follow Justice Don Willett. He’s scamp. lol
Okay, if Trump can do this for 8 years and restock with a lot of quality conservative constitutional judges, just maybe there is some hope for this country. Certainly head and shoulders over Hillary and her militant activist rubber stampers, err I mean judges, she would be installing.
The list I want to see, is judges being impeached and removed for dictating laws without facing any elections.
His Twitter feed is great. He’s a constitutional conservative, a great wit, plus he loves dogs. A-OK in my book.
https://twitter.com/JusticeWillett/status/912304292635316225.
Speaking of Judicial picks, Ian Milquetoast just proved a Prog can tell the truth.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2017/09/29/doh-thinkprogress-justice-editor-just-gave-up-the-entire-liberal-agenda-in-1-tweet/
If Progs had any self-awareness, they wouldn’t be Progs.
Get him seated so he will be well-placed to move up once Ruth Ginsberg assumes room temp
He needs to lose that Bill Nye bow tie.
@Man, you assume she hasn’t? Saw her on TV yesterday, was wearing a scarf so you couldn’t see the bolts in her neck.
President Trump has the sense and fortitude to select Constitutional Judges. There should never be any other kind.
I don’t trust anyone who wears a bow tie.
@TSUNAMI: I don’t know if it applies in all cases, but in my personal experience, everybody I ever knew who preferred bow ties was about a half a bubble off-center, personality-wise.
Just sayin’.
Vietvet,
Exactly.
@VietVet, I wore a bow tie in my service mess dress whites for a submarine birthday ball. Loved it. No cover and mini medals was the way to go!!! Especially after the booze started flowing.
That being said, I’m now supposed to be a responsible father. 🙂 So I gave that shit up. 🙁
Pretty much all current and ex-military are exempt from any snide comments I might make about dress, and can wear anything they darn well want and it’s OK by me. There are a few exceptions, but I won’t go into that here (** koff, koff – McCain – koff, koff – Kerry – koff, koff… **).
🙂