The "normalcy bias" throughout our institutions (courts, Congress, media) in the face of a rapidly ascendant illiberal movement is not protecting the institutions, it's revealing their vulnerabilities and weaknesses.
To me, Mitchell's litigations are proof of how the right has successfully gamed the system. First, it got its preferred judges on the bench; second, it then has worker bees like Mitchell file lawsuits which will then go in front of those judges, with the obvious expectation that the judges will then rule in their favour. As the Supreme Court has shown with its gutting of the Voting Rights Act and the EPA's regulatory authority (not to mention the Dobbs decision), the plan has worked to a degree that probably even most Federalist Society members would not believe.
first thought that popped into my mind: gaming the system. "I'm too busy to respond in this suit because I'm off filing new ones" should be something that has to be revealed or have the extension reversed. Then let the plaintiffs in the suit where he doesn't have time to respond , sue him for malpractice if his inability to manage causes them problems.
The "normalcy bias" throughout our institutions (courts, Congress, media) in the face of a rapidly ascendant illiberal movement is not protecting the institutions, it's revealing their vulnerabilities and weaknesses.
To me, Mitchell's litigations are proof of how the right has successfully gamed the system. First, it got its preferred judges on the bench; second, it then has worker bees like Mitchell file lawsuits which will then go in front of those judges, with the obvious expectation that the judges will then rule in their favour. As the Supreme Court has shown with its gutting of the Voting Rights Act and the EPA's regulatory authority (not to mention the Dobbs decision), the plan has worked to a degree that probably even most Federalist Society members would not believe.
first thought that popped into my mind: gaming the system. "I'm too busy to respond in this suit because I'm off filing new ones" should be something that has to be revealed or have the extension reversed. Then let the plaintiffs in the suit where he doesn't have time to respond , sue him for malpractice if his inability to manage causes them problems.
Jonathan Mitchell is a greedy, evil little man.
#&@$%