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Politics
Josh Blackman

David French Is Right: Judges Do Seek The "Respect" Of Their Peers

President Trump continues to shift paradigms and cause people to reconsider long-held beliefs. His latest Truth Social post has launched a thousands takes. I've already focused on Ed Whelan and the Wall Street Journal. Here, I will write about David French's column in the New York Times.

David purports to explain why many Republican-appointed judges have ruled against Trump. David is not simply writing based on what he reads in judicial opinions. Rather, he suggests that he has some inside information--or at least personal insights. French writes:

I come from the conservative legal movement, I have friends throughout the conservative legal movement (including many Trump-appointed judges), and I think I know the answer, or at least part of it.

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