Conservative Judges Are Refusing To Retire, Denying Trump The Chance To Further Besmirch The Courts
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[It’s] 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. …
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.
— Gregg Nunziata, executive director of the Society for the Rule of Law, a conservative legal group that’s critical of Donald Trump, in comments given to Bloomberg Law, on the likelihood that more conservative judges will opt to take senior status under the president’s 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.
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