The question presented is narrow: Are Plaintiffs likely to succeed on their claims that READER violates their First Amendment rights? Controlling precedent suggests the answer is yes,” U.S. Circuit Judge Don Willett, appointed by former President Trump, wrote in the unanimous opinion.

The one miscalculation that the Federalist Society made is that becoming a lifelong-appointed judge makes you able to follow your own conscience. The shadowy cabal of people who want to destroy the world for their own short term profits have no actual control once the appointment is made.

Only the weakest and least-deserving actually hand their bench over to the shady, evil group that got them there.

[–] Alto@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

The majority of his judicial appointments almost certainly were not picked by Trump himself, rather handed to him by the GOP. While they're too chickenshit to publically call him out, the majority of the judges he appointed likely want little to do with his vision of dictatorship.

Whether that's because of their conscious or because they're smart enough to know they're unlikely to make it out unscathed themselves, that's for you to decide.

Ultimately though, in the real world the whole being chickenshit part nullifies all of that, and each and every one not actively calling it out publically is complicit. Whether they want to admit it to themselves or not.