The 2024 election is about justice, Justices, and judges.
No more Trump appointed judges or Trump nominated Justices.
We have to be done with that. And hammer the message home.
Trump said, “Hire them young. Hire them with a certain ideology.”
So then this week, the news broke about this Trump appointed judge.
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Former U.S. District Court Judge Joshua Kindred was told to voluntarily resign after a judicial council investigation found he had “an inappropriately sexualized relationship” with a female law clerk and lied about it repeatedly to investigators, according to an extraordinary and scathing judicial misconduct order released Monday.
Kindred resigned July 3 without explanation. He could still face a rare judicial impeachment.
The 29-page order, filed in May but not made public until Monday, concluded that “Judge Kindred’s misconduct was pervasive and abusive, constituted sexual harassment, and fostered a hostile work environment that took a personal and professional toll on multiple clerks.”
In keeping with Trump’s desires to hire them young..
Kindred, 46, was nominated by former President Donald Trump to Alaska’s U.S. District Court in 2019 and confirmed in 2020. At the time, he was just 42 — making him one of the youngest of a swath of powerful, lifetime federal judicial appointments made by the Trump administration.
Only we can bend the arc of history toward Justice. We must double down on our efforts to focus on all the reasons Team Biden/Harris are the ones we want to do appoint judges, nominate Justices, and why Democrats must win both houses of Congress to fix the current mess we find ourselves in with regard to the Supreme Court’s Six-PAC of, by, and for the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society.
Update: Both Senator Murkowski and Sullivan approved Trump’s nomination of this scoundrel so-called judge that Trump appointed for a lifetime position. Now, at this time, replacement judges’ names for two vacancies have been submitted by Murkowski and Sullivan but who do not agree on those names. Biden/Harris Administration needs to vet these judges and make these appointments soon.
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Sullivan’s choices would be egregious.. And he is stalling..
Murkowski’s likely better.. but who knows? the process is secret..
Nevertheless, should be a high priority at this time for this administration to fill these vacancies..
Last year, Sullivan established the Alaska Federal Judicial Council to help him pick nominees to the federal bench, which sparked concerns from Murkowski about further delays in filling Burgess’ seat, open since 2021.
Sullivan said the council has a broader cross-section of members than just attorneys on the bar association, including high-profile Republican politicians such as former Gov. Sean Parnell, who was named chair, and former Lt. Gov. Loren Leman. Katchen is also a member of the council…
Murkowski said she has been “aggressive” in trying to fill Burgess’ seat, but after submitting her two names by last September, she said her part in that process was now complete…
Murkowski said that she had recently spoken to Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat and chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who assured her the committee would work to advance a nominee for the District Court of Alaska.
“I think given the second vacancy and the pressures that it’s going to place, I think there is new impetus to try to advance not only one name but two names,” she said on Tuesday.
Last year, the bar association’s board wrote to Murkowski and Sullivan with concerns about the then-18-month vacancy of Burgess’ seat. Executive Director Danielle Bailey said by email on Tuesday that the Alaska Bar Association was confident Gleason and the court’s clerk could provide case management and courtroom support after Kindred’s resignation.
“The Alaska Bar Association continues to have concern about the length of delay associated with our federal judicial vacancies in Alaska and the impact of the delay on the administration of justice more broadly,” Bailey continued to say. “We hope that the current vacancies do not remain needlessly vacant and that the nominations proceed as expediently as possible.”
