"Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, the federal judge who just ruled that the Biden administration’s mask mandate on commercial air travel is illegal, is a 34 or 35 year old federal district judge. She has been in that position for a year and half, despite having acquired essentially zero meaningful trial experience in her extremely brief legal career, prior to starting to run federal court trials herself. She spent basically all of her time after graduating from law school either clerking for an all-star lineup of wingnut judges, including Clarence Thomas, or doing the kind of research scutwork at elite legal institutions that doesn’t require any actual courtroom experience. [snip]
"Mizelle is a Federalist Society alumna, and a radical reactionary: for example, she doesn’t think paper money is constitutional, which was a semi-respectable legal opinion in 1870, but would be considered stark raving mad by ordinary lawyers today. But of course what ordinary lawyers think today may soon be quite beside the point, as the American legal and political system is gradually taken over by radical theocrats who think all of the 20th century and much of the 19th was just one big mistake." -- University of Colorado law professor Paul Campos, at LGM, on Trump- appointed (for life) Federal judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, whose MAGA-rific decision yesterday that the CDC overstepped its authority in mandating masks on commercial air travel and other mass transit may well result in unnecessary illness and death -- just to score political points.
Shame on the Senate for confirming a nominee the American Bar Association rated as "not qualified."
