{"id":124336,"date":"2025-06-26T14:02:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T22:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/26\/conservative-judges-are-refusing-to-retire-denying-trump-the-chance-to-further-besmirch-the-courts\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T14:02:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T22:02:57","slug":"conservative-judges-are-refusing-to-retire-denying-trump-the-chance-to-further-besmirch-the-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/26\/conservative-judges-are-refusing-to-retire-denying-trump-the-chance-to-further-besmirch-the-courts\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Judges Are Refusing To Retire, Denying Trump The Chance To Further Besmirch The Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[It\u2019s] not surprising that a conservative judge who values the judiciary as an institution and its indispensable role in our system would hesitate to retire or take senior status<\/strong>. \u2026<\/p>\n

I very much would suspect that a nomination like [Emil] Bove will gives judges otherwise contemplating taking senior status a reason to continue their service instead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Gregg Nunziata<\/a>, executive director of the Society for the Rule of Law<\/a>, a conservative legal group that\u2019s critical of Donald Trump, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, on the likelihood that more conservative judges will opt to take senior status under the president\u2019s second term. Very few Republican-appointed judges eligible for retirement have done so, denying Trump the chance to replace moderate jurists with more conservative candidates.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Conservative Judges Are Refusing To Retire, Denying Trump The Chance To Further Besmirch The Courts<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[It\u2019s] not surprising that a conservative judge who values the judiciary as an institution and its indispensable role in our system would hesitate to retire or take senior status<\/strong>. \u2026<\/p>\n

I very much would suspect that a nomination like [Emil] Bove will gives judges otherwise contemplating taking senior status a reason to continue their service instead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Gregg Nunziata<\/a>, executive director of the Society for the Rule of Law<\/a>, a conservative legal group that\u2019s critical of Donald Trump, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, on the likelihood that more conservative judges will opt to take senior status under the president\u2019s second term. Very few Republican-appointed judges eligible for retirement have done so, denying Trump the chance to replace moderate jurists with more conservative candidates.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. [It\u2019s] not surprising that a conservative judge who values the judiciary as an institution and its indispensable role in our system would hesitate to retire or take senior status. \u2026 I very much would suspect that a nomination like [Emil] Bove will gives judges […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Staci-Zaretsky-Ls2VV2.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}