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Reed O'Connor is a totally nutso federal judge in Fort Worth.

Last month, DOJ subpoenaed a hospital in Rhode Island to obtain the private medical records of certain trans children. Three government went to Reed O'Connor to enforce this subpoena, which he did.

Within hours of the gov's motion he ruled ex parte to order the hospital to turn over the docs on a short deadline. He didn't give the hospital a chance to respond, which is a big judicial no-no. He also ignored venue rules. Venue rules would indicate that the proper place to file this kind of enforcement motion would be the federal courthouse in Rhode Island, where the hospital is. There's no reason for this case to be in Fort Worth besides the fact that Reed O'Connor is in Fort Worth.

Anyhow, the hospital filed a motion in Rhode Island Court seeking to quash the subpoena, which the Rhode Island judge did. This caused Reed O'Connor to completely lose his shit. He just flat out ignored the perfectly valid court order to quash from his fellow federal judge in Rhode Island. And he ordered the hospital not to file any other motions, lawsuits, or appeals in any other court besides his own. This is a serious violation of the hospital's first amendment right to seek redress of grievances by filing motions, lawsuits, and appeals in courts of law.

Also, earlier this week, Texas and the feds conspired to rewrite immigration rules in Reed O'Connor's Court. The rule in question allows immigration judges to "administratively" close cases which stops a deportation, but leaves the immigrant in legal limbo. Normally, to change a federal rule, you have to spend years collecting public comments and revising before it becomes final.

Here's what happened instead. The state of Texas filed a lawsuit against the federal government that claimed the rule was somehow illegal. The federal government filed a proposed settlement agreement to settle the lawsuit. Then Reed O'Connor filed a final judgement and permanent injunction overturning the rule. This all happened in the span of a few hours instead of years.

It is also very illegal. Because it's obvious that both Texas and the feds want the same outcome, there is no genuine dispute or controversy to this lawsuit. If this is not a genuine "case or controversy", the federal courts have no jurisdiction to do anything.

And so on, and so on. There's a long Wikipedia article full of older stuff from the past. But hopefully you get some idea of how crazy this guy is.

Oh god what did they do this time?

You know what is really funny About US Americans and their near religious reverence of their political institutions? You people think that the source of the problem is the solution. The constitution won't save you. The constitution of the US describes a state that is incapable of operating and leaves open this sort of tyranny. Due the the broken structure of your government you've been unable to pass meaningful legislation for decades. There hasn't been an amendment since the 1992 and that was to give congress a raise. You raise up normal day to day legislation like funding a small amount of infrastructure "build back better" and a right wing guaranteed profits law that only really benefits the insurance industry "america cares act" as major accomplishments.

The constitution isn't what is going to fix this. The constitution describes a government written in the preindustrial age to maintain slave owner supremacy and protect the interests of the elite. It describes a system that is subject to a tyranny of the majority that has weakness in the very cultural fabric of Americans like hyper individualism, materialism and anti-intellectualism.

These aren't just the rantings of a "tankie" either, this was called out by Tocqueville in 1831 and it has come to pass.

Remember when we told people Trump would take people's rights away and they thought we were delusional?

A harsher sentence for owning a printing press than child sexual abusers get

This judge should never feel safe again.

Texas just approved making Bible passages required reading for school children.

Institution? 😉

Constipation?

No, that alliteration.

Monster douchin’

Destitution

Prostitution?

Boob Solution

Prostitution?

Hesitation?

Helicopter helicopter!

No, it doesn't...

Moving. Not distributing.