{"id":131,"date":"2004-11-02T23:30:48","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T07:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/activist-judges\/"},"modified":"2004-11-02T23:30:48","modified_gmt":"2004-11-03T07:30:48","slug":"activist-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/activist-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I heard this morning that the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toledoblade.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20041102\/NEWS09\/41102005\">overturned<\/a> rulings yesterday from two different U.S. District judges, the first thing I wondered was who appointed the judges to overturn the ruling. I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liquidlist.com\/archives\/2004\/11\/politics_who_ar_1.html\">my answer<\/a> and, unfortunately, it falls along party lines. The two judges who overturned the rulings were appointed by Republican presidents. <\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t judges supposed to be impartial? While I&#8217;m not familiar with the Ohio law, it seems to me that the polling officials should be the ones to decide whether or not to challenge a voter&#8217;s eligbility, not some partisan observer, whether they&#8217;re Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Green or whatever. There shouldn&#8217;t be any partisan people screwing with the voters in the polling place. Period. Anything else just seems wrong to me. WTF?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I heard this morning that the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had overturned rulings yesterday from two different U.S. District judges, the first thing I wondered was who appointed the judges to overturn the ruling. I have my answer and, unfortunately, it falls along party lines. The two judges who overturned the rulings <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/activist-judges\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-2-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-27","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}