Trump Judge Very Sad About Being Called 'Trump Judge' When He Does Stuff Only Trump Judges Do

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https://abovethelaw.com/2024/09/trump-judge-complains-chicago-unconstitutional-guns-on-trains/

Trump Judge Very Sad About Being Called 'Trump Judge' When He Does Stuff Only Trump Judges Do

Judge strikes down Illinois law banning concealed weapons from public transit as unconstitutional... but he would prefer you not mention how he got that job.

By JOE PATRICE
on September 4, 2024 at 4:02 PM

Yesterday, Judge Iain Johnston of the Northern District of Illinois struck down a law banning guns from Chicago’s trains. State law included a provision that a concealed carry license did not cover bringing a weapon onto public transit. If you thought fireworks on a train platform were dangerous, imagine an errant gunshot. Alas, Judge Johnston isn’t worried about these safety concerns. Sorry, future Ms. Palsgraf.

What Judge Johnston is worried about is the possibility that people might connect his conversion of NRA talking points into a published opinion to him being a Federalist Society-vetted (member 1995-1998!) Trump appointee. And rather than just suck that up, he decided to lampshade it off the top with a footnote, I guess to guilt some reporter into not hurting the judge’s fee-fees with an accurate headline.

“Trump-appointed judge allows firearms on Illinois public transit” is a likely chyron for this decision. That’s unfortunate. Federal judges—including those who will review this decision—engage in exacting, thoughtful, and careful analyses that are not results oriented or reducible to headlines and chyrons. We’re doing the best we can.

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One’s heart goes out to the real victim in a case about gun violence: The judge. No one wants to be saddled with the same title as Aileen Cannon. But if the robe fits, you know?

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[Meadowoak]

1. The democrats that stayed home in 16 caused this mess

We all knew how this would turn out.

[displacedvermoter]

3. Jeesuz.....

Can you please cite one statistic not based on what Susan Sarandon said before the election that shows disaffected Sanders voters cost Clinton the election? And not on comments made by individuals that the press ran with as part of their beloved "Democrats in Disarray" theme, either.

We have FBI evidence of Russian organized interference, and we saw polling shifts from before and after the Comey disclosures. I see it more likely that the few tens of thousands of votes that made the difference in key states resulted from these actual, provable things. But no, it is all Bernie's fault. It is what you want to believe, and damn it you are sticking with it!

But without proof I see as real, you are blaming Georgia school deaths on people.

[Meadowoak]

4. I never said it was Bernie's fault.

But I do know that many many educated people decided to stay home after comey's opening the investigation into her emails.

[displacedvermoter]

5. I just don't believe that many Democrats did this

though. So called "undecided voters" bought this nonsense, and folks who were undecided then, like people who are undecided now, are pretty unreliable and are pretty unserious.

I just hate what I see as a continued refighting of past campaigns. So if I misread your post, my apologies.

[Meadowoak]

6. The school that I worked at before I retired, there

We're at least 50 decided Hillary voters, that decided to "sit this one out" after comey's announcement, and yes that was in a battleground state.

[displacedvermoter]

7. Ok

Good you kept count

[Irish_Dem]

2. Americans have blood on their hands.

They vote for pro gun leaders.

[Midnight Writer]

8. Now do guns on airliners.

Picture the pride in our 2nd Amendment citizens will feel when they are on a plane or train and passengers board carrying AR-15s.

[lees1975]

9. No restrictions carrying guns on the L?

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/cta-fatal-shooting-court/

I would call him a Trump judge, and I would also call him a dumbass judge. This was Monday. I ride that line every day.