{"id":29738,"date":"2020-03-17T16:02:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T21:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29738"},"modified":"2020-03-17T16:02:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T21:02:39","slug":"republican-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29738","title":{"rendered":"Republican Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mitch McConnell’s getting worried about his losing his power to continue to making the Federal Courts a Republican ocean. He’s encouraging old Republican appointed judges to retire so that Trump can fill their offices with recent law school ideologues. https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2020\/03\/16\/mitch-mcconnell-urging-judges-retire-ahead-2020-election\/5060303002\/<\/a><\/p>\n

What follows is an open letter from a resigning attorney of the Supreme Court to Chief Justice Roberts. It reflects my thinking since 2000 when the Supreme Court stuck its nose into Florida’s election and stopped its courts from awarding Al Gore the votes he needed to become the next president. <\/p>\n

https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2020\/03\/judge-james-dannenberg-supreme-court-bar-roberts-letter.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mitch McConnell’s getting worried about his losing his power to continue to making the Federal Courts a Republican ocean. He’s encouraging old Republican appointed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29740,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29738\/revisions\/29740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}