'No real choice at all': First Amendment group uses Trump admin's own filing against itself to demand SCOTUS overturn 'gag orders' on immigration judges | Law & Crime
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/no-real-choice-at-all-first-amendment-group-uses-trump-admins-own-filing-against-itself-to-demand-scotus-overturn-gag-orders-on-immigration-judges/
Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctions (Ashifa Kassam/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/18/international-criminal-court-icc-judges-trump-sanctions
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p42#a260218p42
Islamic Scholar’s Post-Sept. 11 Convictions Are Tossed on Free Speech Grounds
Federal judges ruled that an Islamic teacher’s statements goading men in Virginia to join an overseas militant group were protected by the First Amendment.
US sanctions on ICC should be used as an indicator of where to direct efforts to grow independence from US businesses
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/02/18/us-sanctions-turn-international-criminal-court-judge…
French ICC Judge Nicolas Guillou is living a nightmare after the US sanctioned him and other judges for issuing an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, once again exposing the risk of Europeans' reliance on American services.
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As one might expect El Cheato appointed judges rule in favor of trump far more often than do judges appointed by prior presidents.
But the amount of that imbalance is beyond astounding.
From the NY Times:
"Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor"
Which causes me to repeat my suggestions, from year 2020, about how we can remove power from those judges by using a technique well practiced elsewhere - redefining jobs and "rubb…
Trump's win streak on Supreme Court emergency docket breaks (Zach Schonfeld/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5657340-supreme-court-immigration-judges-speech-emergency-docket/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p74#a251219p74
When Trump criticized a ruling from a so-called “Obama judge” in 2018,
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. responded that “we do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.”
But the data suggests that in the 13 appellate courts, there is increasingly such a thing as a Trump judge.
The president’s appointees voted to allow his policies to take effect 133 times and voted against them only 12 times.
Ninety-two percent of their total votes were i…