“The prestige and power associated with being an Article III federal judge goes down if a large number of new federal court judgeships are created. There has never been anything like the weaponizing of the federal judiciary that is currently taking place. “Still am, so frankly it seems like it’s been in-sourced.”Before now, the most concerted effort to redirect the federal courts came during the Reagan administration, which placed an impressive group of conservative law professors and other intellectuals on the appeals courts. A weaponized judiciary poses real dangers to the legitimacy of the federal courts, and there’s no point in pretending otherwise. The newest Supreme Court justice, Neil Gorsuch, was the featured speaker at last week’s Federalist Society convention.

Source: New York Times November 23, 2017 10:41 UTC