Did you know our Judiciary has its own taxpayer-funded “neutral training pipeline"?
Meet the USAID of Article III.
The Federal Judicial Center. What I've uncovered isn't "neutral" judicial training. It's ideological capture. Take a look at how it's infecting our judiciary. 🧵
The Federal Judicial Center (FJC) is the official research and education arm of the federal courts, created by Congress to train and equip our nation's judges.
It shapes how these judges evaluate evidence.
Its materials influence real court cases across the country every day.
You'd assume the FJC is filled with unbiased and impartial legal scholars, especially when it comes to directing judges' continuing education. Let's meet @jrlinkins, Director of Education at FJC.
She describes her "heroes" as Zora Neale Hurston (known for her flagrant plagiarism in her extensive work on Haitian Voodoo) and Staceyann Chin (A Chinese-Jamaican Lesbian Poet known for writing smut and reciting it at poetry slams).
Unsurprisingly, this is the type of content being promoted by the FJC's leadership.
But does this asinine ideology flow into FJC's work? Of course. The FJC has partnered with Columbia University and other left-wing organizations. Together they “educated” over 2,000 judges on climate change nonsense.
This is clearly a taxpayer-funded patronage network. While doing the Left's dirty work in the Judicial branch, Linkins quietly funneled kickbacks through ActBlue to Democrats in Congress and Biden's Campaign.
Then came the bombshell: The FJC’s Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, the guide judges use to decide what science counts in court.
They snuck in a MASSIVE new climate change chapter, written by organizations actively suing energy producers.
The backlash was so fierce that the FJC was forced to pull the entire climate chapter, but only after it had already been distributed to thousands of judges.
Let that sink in. They laundered Greta Thunberg talking points into the official judicial reference manual.
This taxpayer funded outfit has become infested with pop scientists peddling Davos-approved talking points. This isn’t something we can simply overlook or ignore.
The courts are not a branch of the left-wing NGO complex. They are not supposed to be trained by the very left-wing activists filing the lawsuits. They are not supposed to get their “science” from outfits whose explicit goal is to reshape law in favor of climate policy outcome.
The rule of law is sacred. It demands real neutrality, not indoctrination from Columbia climate warriors and their NGO allies.
We’re going to keep shining a light on this until the pipeline is shut down and accountability is restored.
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The Trump DOJ recently won a massive case at the 8th Circuit.
For months, rogue district court judges in MN have engaged in all-out resistance.
ICE would arrest illegal aliens, but these judges would then immediately spring them loose.
The 8th Circuit just put an end to it.
A bit of background:
In 1996, Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA).
The bill passed with large bipartisan majorities.
President Clinton signed it.
(This was before Democrats adopted their radical open borders ideology.)
That law contains 8 USC 1225.
Because illegal aliens have never been legally admitted, § 1225 deems them "applicants for admission."
And it later mandates that any "applicant for admission...shall be detained" pending removal proceedings.
Live-tweeting now while listening in: Oral arguments in the landmark birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara.
There is 1 hour scheduled for the argument, but I expect this argument to go somewhere around 2.5-3 hours, given how thorny and important of an issue this is. 🧵
Arguing today are Solicitor General John Sauer, who was my Solicitor General when I was Attorney General of Missouri. He has a very impressive win record at the Supreme Court and is representing the government.
And Cecilia Wang, the National Legal Director for the ACLU.
President Trump announced he is attending oral arguments today, which will be historic.
A little known fact pointed out by @AAGDhillon, the President has a "designated" seat inside the court room at the Supreme Court.
Today, the Supreme Court will hear the Birthright Citizenship case.
American citizenship is a sacred privilege, not an automatic gift to those who break our laws.
I've been fighting on this issue in the Senate and at the Supreme Court. Here's what I'll be listening for. 🧵
The case—Trump v. Barbara—presents SCOTUS with this question:
Whether President Trump's executive order interpreting the 14th Amendment and federal law to NOT require unlimited birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens and temporary visitors is legal.
The 14th Amendment contains the Citizenship Clause.
Ratified after the Civil War, it was intended to overturn SCOTUS's infamous Dred Scott decision, which held that people of African descent could never become US citizens, solely b/c of their race. In this case, SCOTUS will likely interpret the Citizenship Clause.