It may be true that we live in a world filled with interesting questions. One of the more interesting questions is an unanswered question, one which may not have even been asked yet. So far as I know, this question has not generally been asked yet, and Holy Week seems to be a fit time to ask:
How is it that so many federal judges who were appointed during the American Apocalypse, got assignments to one-judge divisions?
Perhaps journalists and the news media in general can ask that question, and perhaps they can get answers. I will list some below that can perhaps get answers.
For more on the American Apocalypse and how its effects are still with us every day, see, for example, the articles UNELECTED TEXAS JUDGES, THE AMERICAN APOCALYPSE, AND MINORITY RULE, published on Claims and Issues Blog on March 9, 2024, and JUDGES ASSIGNED TO ONE-JUDGE COURTS DURING THE AMERICAN APOCALYPSE, published on Claims and Issues Blog on March 26, 2024.
I am now going to mention the names of people and outlets who have the capacity to get answers to these questions if they want to. If I left a tweet on X-which-used-to-be-Twitter, I guess they might find a tweet but so would the trolls most likely and I do not want that. I do not know whether these people will pay attention to blogs like this one, but I am going to try. Maybe they will seek out their names since they are in a business where their name recognition is so important to them.
I am still not completely sure of how to bring this article to their attention, so I am going to mention their names here in the body of this article as well as in the metadata accompanying it. Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you, Susanne Craig, David Barstow, Russ Buettner, Andrew Weissmann, Will Bunch, Scott Maxwell, Jackie Calmes, LZ Granderson, Karen Tumulty, Julie K. Brown, David Dayen, New York Times, Washington Post, American Prospect, Guardian, Philadelphia Inquirer, Jamie Raskin, Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Talking Points Memo, ProPublica, Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, Dahlia Lithwick, Mark Joseph Stern, Slate, Linda Greenhouse, Lisa Rubin, and American Prospect.
Thank you in advance, one and all.
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