Lets reduce the activist judge discussion down to the judge that ordered usaid get their 2 billion dollars. His wife was the ceo of an organization directly funded by usaid grants. That issue was never disclosed to the parties.
Do you agree this constitutes a direct financial tie that requires the judge to recuse or at least requires the judge to disclose to the parties so they can request recusal?
I have no issue with a random federal district court judge making a bad ruling. That's baked into the cake because most judges at any level are either incompetent or borderline incompetent.
That said, there is zero authority that im aware of, either actual or via logic, that allows a district court judge to issue an order that has national reach. By the very appointment and creation of the judicial districts, its inherent their power reaches no further than their district. Otherwise the federal judiciary would've been set up without districts.
Secondly, trump and co need to be very careful attacking the entire judiciary because of some obviously corrupt judges. No need to throw an entire history of respect for the separation of powers into the trash especially when you clearly have other avenues of successfully challenging the ruling and their power.
One of those avenues includes tracking all the usaid money to their end sources, which will absolutely get all of these rogue judges. There is a very clear reason these cases are filed in front of them. Doge clearly has the ability to track it down, they just stopped for whatever reason after the initial layer of usaid corruption. This is the best method to root out these people for good.
