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Ben's avatar

Emil Bove should be disciplined. Federal judges are barred from participating in partisan politics. This is basic. You can't even post a yard sign or slap a bumper sticker on your car.

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Lance Khrome's avatar

These rules were pre-tRump...Bove is less an appellate judge than still on retainer as a de facto attorney-of-record for tRump, per his actions.

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Ben's avatar

He is a federal circuit judge appointed under Article III and is subject to the Code of Conduct for United States Judges.

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Lance Khrome's avatar

Haw-haw!

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Ben's avatar

If you think it doesn't matter, you're mistaken.

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Lance Khrome's avatar

Law Dork — aka Chris Geidner — really lays it to Bove in this Substack piece:

https://www.lawdork.com/p/emil-bove-trump-rally-rule-of-law-code-of-conduct

Chris notes that a citizen's complaint has been filed with the Chief Judge of the Third Circuit for starters, but far more action is warranted against a wholly unqualified individual holding such a judgeship.

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Susan Linehan's avatar

I'm surprised that rationing pencils didn't make it into the National Security Strategy. Did limiting dolls at Xmas?

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Manqueman's avatar

Only some sort of fool assumes Trump won’t be making a serious effort to run in 2028. I mean, we know what the rule of law means when it comes to the Fuhrer and the other scumbags.

As for Venezuela etc, the focus on a single incident, the bullshit around why these strikes are happening—it has nothing to do with drugs but with Trump’s RWNJ media-fueled hard on for first Chavez, now Maduro— and Big Media’s strong efforts to ignore the psychopathy is, to say the least, disheartening yet not in the least surprising.

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Runfastandwin's avatar

"GOP chairman of the House Armed Services Committee" as predicted, CYA.

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Victoria Brown's avatar

Gee, I thought USAID

was shut down, or is this

Trumpster in charge of

destroying the tons of

food and drugs that

have been rotting all

year?

Miami has a new dem

lady mayor. First

democrat to win this

seat in "28" years. 👍

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Ben's avatar
2dEdited

Qualifications or lack of them are beside the point now. The Senate had the opportunity to deny Bove's confirmation, but it didn't. So he is currently a real life, honest-to-God federal judge. Impeachment is equally beside the point because Bove's attendance at a political rally wouldn't qualify him for impeachment. But it does qualify him for discipline, in my view. There is really no question about that. Your remarks here suggest that you believe the ethical rules for federal judges are meaningless. They aren't, I promise you.

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