welcome to progressive america
Reagan appointed him gotcha gotcha gotcha.
I'm not sure why or how Reagan's name appeared in bold type from the quote I pasted from the first of the two links I posted. It does not appear in bold type in the actual link, and I did not make it bold type myself. It was not really a "gotcha" effort on my part at all. Based on what Dutch said above, "welcome to progressive America", I just decided to see what info I could find on the judge in question. I asked myself "is this an obvious "progressive" judge?"
But, yes, I did think it unlikely that he was a "progressive" judge if he had been appointed by Reagan. I thought it informative to at least look at the judge's background and history in view of Dutch's words. No more then that; I am not really familiar with the issues involved at all. Maybe I should be, but I am not. But it was not intended as a "gotcha" per se, since FGM does not seem like a good thing to me, I'm just not familiar with this issue as much as some in this thread may be.
I also had in mind Trump's recent condemnation of the 9th circuit, and Justice Robert's claim that we have no Obama or Trump judges, Bush or Clinton judges, and now Trump's insistance that we do have Obama judges and they are biased against Trump. It just seemed useful to at least look at the judge's background in view of the Trump/Roberts exchange as well. I felt if Dutch was essentially saying this was the ruling of a "progressive" judge, then we may as well look at the judge. So I googled up a couple of pages. I think the fact that Reagan's name was in bold type could make it seem like a "gotcha" effort, but, again, I did not create the bold type, and it was nothing more then me providing background info on who appointed this judge, and some sort of resume of the judge. To me, at least, that's just objective info, and not an effort at gotcha at all.
Reagan appointed the judge. That's just an objective fact. Not a "gotcha" because I really don't know anything about this judge before this ruling, and I am not somehow pro-FGM.
Nothing wrong with looking closer at the judge is all....