Tootfinder

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…

Appeals court denies Trump administration appeal of National Guard deployment ruling in Illinois (WLS/ABC7)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/7th-circuit-court-appeals-judges-deny-trump-administration-appeal-national-guard-ruling-illinois/18020390/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p162#a251016p162

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…

Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor
President Trump promised to fill the appeals courts with “my judges.” They have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges.

If anybody knows how to convince city leaders and police chiefs that they •can• enforce traffic laws against ICE, or convince ICE officers that they will be prosecuted for their actions, or convince everyone that ICE officers who do not provide proof of identity can legally be treated as unknown assailants and kidnappers, or convince judges that Minneapolis / St. Paul is not “the border,” or…or…or…undo any of these nonsense beliefs, please do that! But it’s the •convincing•, not the being correct, that matters there.

You’re allowed to like things even if they are “cringe”, “lame”, “awkward”, “boring”, or “geeky”.
- Sincerely, someone who judges herself way too much for enjoying things (and is working on doing that less).

AFGE urges appellate judges to uphold injunction against Trump’s anti-union EOs - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/01/afge-urges-appellate-judges-uphold-injunction-against-trumps-anti-union-eos/410665/

Federal court upholds California's new congressional districts in a victory for Democrats (Jenny Jarvie/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-14/la-me-pol-judges-decision-california-prop-50-maps
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p25#a260115p25

This poses a vexing problem for resistance: a direct force-on-force assault against ICE by small groups of citizens is foolish…but holding signs and waiting for the next election sure as hell ain’t gonna cut it either.
We have to find ways to fight back on the streets — but it has to look good on TikTok and on the news and to members of Congress and judges and the gaze of the whole world. Cameras and whistles are a start, but it can’t stop there. All this is not just going away on its own.

Local community groups? Busting their asses, but they live and die on volunteer support. Legal system? Too slow, too compromised. City, county, state elected officials? Grasping for something they can do. Local police? Useless or worse than useless, of course.
BUT…all the above are formed by, shaped by, and constrained by popular sentiment. An active, defiant citizenry changes how all these institutions behave. Police know, politicians know, and yes, even judges know: they can only stray so far from what people will tolerate.
This active resistance? Hell yeah, it matters. It’s the short-term •and• the long-term.

Trump's 'Superstar' Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/politics/trumps-appeals-court-judges.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DlA.ZpCA.Qc2mEhZZ9gf7&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p4#a260111p4