David French Is Right: Judges Do Seek The “Respect” Of Their Peers
President Trump continues to shift paradigms and cause people to reconsider long-held beliefs. His latest Truth Social post has launched a thousands takes. I’ve already focused on Ed Whelan and the Wall Street Journal. Here, I will write about David French’s column in the New York Times.
David purports to explain why many Republican-appointed judges have ruled against Trump. David is not simply writing based on what he reads in judicial opinions. Rather, he suggests that he has some inside information–or at least personal insights. French writes:
I come from the conservative legal movement, I have friends throughout the conservative legal movement (including many Trump-appointed judges), and I think I know the answer, or at least part of it.
David is speaking, or least he purports to speak, for judges that Trump appointed during his first term.
I’ve written that Whelan and the Wall Street Journal got the situation 100% backwards. French, to his credit, accurately perceives the symptoms, but makes the wrong diagnosis.
French explains that judges are more interested in the respect of their peers than the applause of the crowd:
The immense pressure that Trump puts on his perceived rivals and opponents exposes our core motivations, and the core motivations of federal judges are very different from the core moti
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