{"id":164022,"date":"2026-09-30T12:15:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/30\/all-the-courts-a-stage-and-trump-judges-merely-players\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T12:15:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:15:52","slug":"all-the-courts-a-stage-and-trump-judges-merely-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/30\/all-the-courts-a-stage-and-trump-judges-merely-players\/","title":{"rendered":"All The Court\u2019s A Stage And Trump Judges Merely Players"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court finally put down the dead horse that the Eighth Circuit kept beating,\u00a0ruling for the third time<\/a>\u00a0that Missouri can\u2019t impose an illegal gerrymander in time for this election. But this farce highlights a growing problem as conservative \u2014 primarily Trump-appointed \u2014 judges use the federal courts as a staging ground for polishing their resumes. It\u2019s not just the Eighth Circuit either. The Fifth and\u00a0even the Second<\/a>\u00a0have seen these antics. Also the fashion police arrived in Texas and\u00a0attacked a lawyer for her sleeveless dress<\/a>. And,\u00a0how long are Biglaw lawyers working in London?<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Supreme Court finally put down the dead horse that the Eighth Circuit kept beating,\u00a0ruling for the third time<\/a>\u00a0that Missouri can\u2019t impose an illegal gerrymander in time for this election. But this farce highlights a growing problem as conservative \u2014 primarily Trump-appointed \u2014 judges use the federal courts as a staging ground for polishing their resumes. It\u2019s not just the Eighth Circuit either. The Fifth and\u00a0even the Second<\/a>\u00a0have seen these antics. Also the fashion police arrived in Texas and\u00a0attacked a lawyer for her sleeveless dress<\/a>. And,\u00a0how long are Biglaw lawyers working in London?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court finally put down the dead horse that the Eighth Circuit kept beating,\u00a0ruling for the third time\u00a0that Missouri can\u2019t impose an illegal gerrymander in time for this election. But this farce highlights a growing problem as conservative \u2014 primarily Trump-appointed \u2014 judges use the federal courts as a staging ground for polishing their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164022","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=164022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}