'It's very unsavory': 5th Circuit judge brutally criticizes law professor for judge-shopping research -- says his comment

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‘It’s very unsavory’: 5th Circuit judge brutally criticizes law professor for judge-shopping research — says his comments are ‘attacks on the rule of law’

Left to right: Law Professor Steve Vladeck and Judge Edith Jones discuss judge-shopping in Washington, D.C. (Federalist Society/YouTube).


A judge on the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit harshly criticized a prominent legal scholar and law professor during a recent panel discussion hosted by the Federalist Society.

Georgetown University Law Professor Steve Vladeck studies, among other subjects, “judge-shopping,” the process of filing lawsuits in single-judge divisions — typically to obtain sweeping national injunctions from a known-to-be friendly court.

On Thursday, during a forum entitled “The Continued Independence of the Judiciary,” the law professor was the target of criticism by Circuit Judge Edith H. Jones, beginning with a bit of a send-off, an apparent reference to Vladeck’s former position at the University of Texas.

“Professor Vladeck has left the Fifth Circuit and the Fifth Circuit is happy to announce that Professor Vladeck will soon be criticizing the Ninth Circuit and the D.C. Circuit where I believe many initiatives of the Trump administration will find an immediate litigating home and a federal judiciary that is at least 90% appointed by presidents whose appointments have not been criticized,” Jones began.

Then the Reagan-appointed judge got to the heart of her critique.

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1. Psst judge... Direct your anger at SCROTUS.

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2. She is on the wrong side

She's defending Texas' wild-west judges.

Not sure what this is doing here.

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3. Edith Jones is an ass

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4. Pretty remarkable watching Judge Edith Jones pull out a folder of times that Steve Vladeck has hurt her feelings

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