Texas-based Judge Reed O'Connor, a favorite of conservative litigants, in a weekend speech criticized the federal judiciary's leadership for caving to "political pressure" by trying to adopt policies to curb "judge shopping." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Texas judge favored by conservatives blasts 'judge shopping' reform
A federal judge in Texas whose courthouse has become a favorite destination for conservative litigants and business groups challenging Democratic President Joe Biden's agenda is criticizing the federal judiciary's leadership for caving to "political pressure" by trying to adopt policies to curb "judge shopping."
www.reuters.com
September 23, 2024 at 5:59 PM
#JudicialCapture example number: ∞
Judge Neomi Rao sits on the court that hears a disproportionate number of administrative law cases, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, making this act all the more inappropriate.
November 15, 2024 at 6:24 PM
#JudicialCapture example number: ∞
#JudicialCapture in one horrifying data visualization.
Trump's appellate judges have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges. How often they ruled for him in 2025:
Trump appointees: 92%
Other Republican appointees: 68%
Democratic appointees: 27%
@schwartzesque.bsky.social Emma Schartz www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
Trump appointees: 92%
Other Republican appointees: 68%
Democratic appointees: 27%
@schwartzesque.bsky.social Emma Schartz www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:50 PM
#JudicialCapture in one horrifying data visualization.
This is what I mean by #JudicialCapture.
A Trumpy judiciary, emboldened by a Trumpy Supreme Court, in concert with Trumpy red states, will be the gravest threat to a Kamala Harris presidency unless and until she and party marshal the popular will to do something about it.
Republican federal judges have struck down six major Biden initiatives in two months. GOP politicians don't have to advance the party's very unpopular views. Instead, they can rely on the party's super-partisan judges who never have to stand before voters. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
August 29, 2024 at 6:00 PM
This is what I mean by #JudicialCapture.
🎩 HARLAN CROW: DEMOCRACY’S QUIET AUCTIONEER 🖼️
Why legislate when you can curate? From yacht junkets to Justice sponsorships, Crow’s “public service” includes valet parking and vintage fascism.
Checks and balances? Sold to the highest tax bracket.
#NOLIGARCHY.US #SupremeBias #ClarenceOnCall
Why legislate when you can curate? From yacht junkets to Justice sponsorships, Crow’s “public service” includes valet parking and vintage fascism.
Checks and balances? Sold to the highest tax bracket.
#NOLIGARCHY.US #SupremeBias #ClarenceOnCall
May 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
🎩 HARLAN CROW: DEMOCRACY’S QUIET AUCTIONEER 🖼️
Why legislate when you can curate? From yacht junkets to Justice sponsorships, Crow’s “public service” includes valet parking and vintage fascism.
Checks and balances? Sold to the highest tax bracket.
#NOLIGARCHY.US #SupremeBias #ClarenceOnCall
Why legislate when you can curate? From yacht junkets to Justice sponsorships, Crow’s “public service” includes valet parking and vintage fascism.
Checks and balances? Sold to the highest tax bracket.
#NOLIGARCHY.US #SupremeBias #ClarenceOnCall
#JudicialCapture is ramping up.
Scoop: A Trump DOJ official recently asked all US attorneys for examples of perceived judicial activism -- i.e., adverse rulings -- to inform potential impeachment referrals to Congress. This would escalate DOJ's clash with the bench. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Trump DOJ Seeks Judicial Impeachment Fodder From Top Prosecutors
A Trump Justice Department official is soliciting examples of perceived judicial activism from all US attorney’s offices to inform potential impeachment referrals to Congress, portending an escalation...
news.bloomberglaw.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:51 PM
#JudicialCapture is ramping up.
Republicans have no problem packing supreme courts. Democratic governments need to respond in kind. #JudicialCapture by the right is part of why things are so bad right now.
🚨 Republicans just passed a law to pack Utah’s Supreme Court by adding two seats.
Republicans are doing this following court rulings against their gerrymander and their attempt to gut the ballot initiative process that voters used to ban gerrymandering
Republicans are doing this following court rulings against their gerrymander and their attempt to gut the ballot initiative process that voters used to ban gerrymandering
www.abc4.com
January 31, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Republicans have no problem packing supreme courts. Democratic governments need to respond in kind. #JudicialCapture by the right is part of why things are so bad right now.
Unfortunately, the media doesn't discuss how the #SCOTUS Major Question doctrine was created out of whole cloth to justify right-wing judgements on behalf of wealthy benefactors. It's creation was the direct result of #JudicialCapture by the Republican Senate under Trump.
The next development in the Supreme Court’s Major Questions doctrine is its sudden disappearance
November 18, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Unfortunately, the media doesn't discuss how the #SCOTUS Major Question doctrine was created out of whole cloth to justify right-wing judgements on behalf of wealthy benefactors. It's creation was the direct result of #JudicialCapture by the Republican Senate under Trump.
#JudicialCapture continues being the cheapest way to overthrow democracy.
May 4, 2026 at 9:49 PM
#JudicialCapture continues being the cheapest way to overthrow democracy.
I thought this was a joke post, but it is not. Musk is leaning into his bought and paid for judge in ND Texas. #JudicialCapture
Woof. New TOS also sends every Twitter cases to Tesla judge Reed O Connor.
October 17, 2024 at 8:23 PM
I thought this was a joke post, but it is not. Musk is leaning into his bought and paid for judge in ND Texas. #JudicialCapture
The risks of #JudicialCapture to democracy and civil rights could not be clearer.
One political party is packing courts to protect criminal billionaires and harm women, children, and minorities.
The other political party needs to get serious about fighting this.
One political party is packing courts to protect criminal billionaires and harm women, children, and minorities.
The other political party needs to get serious about fighting this.
Republicans love adding seats to state Supreme Courts! They've done it three times in recent years. This latest court-packing plan will shift Utah's high court far to the right and possibly flip rulings on abortion and gerrymandering.
Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!
Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!
This hasn’t received nearly enough attention:
Republicans just passed a law to pack Utah’s Supreme Court after it ruled against their congressional gerrymander.
Cox could appoint two more justices before the court hears the GOP’s latest appeal to preserve their gerrymander
Republicans just passed a law to pack Utah’s Supreme Court after it ruled against their congressional gerrymander.
Cox could appoint two more justices before the court hears the GOP’s latest appeal to preserve their gerrymander
February 2, 2026 at 7:38 PM
The risks of #JudicialCapture to democracy and civil rights could not be clearer.
One political party is packing courts to protect criminal billionaires and harm women, children, and minorities.
The other political party needs to get serious about fighting this.
One political party is packing courts to protect criminal billionaires and harm women, children, and minorities.
The other political party needs to get serious about fighting this.
We’re entering a period of #disregulation.
Between #judicialcapture overturning any existing precedent regulating businesses and the wealthy, and the incoming Republican plan to gut executive enforcement of regulations, this will have negative impacts on the public for decades.
Between #judicialcapture overturning any existing precedent regulating businesses and the wealthy, and the incoming Republican plan to gut executive enforcement of regulations, this will have negative impacts on the public for decades.
December 11, 2024 at 3:03 AM
We’re entering a period of #disregulation.
Between #judicialcapture overturning any existing precedent regulating businesses and the wealthy, and the incoming Republican plan to gut executive enforcement of regulations, this will have negative impacts on the public for decades.
Between #judicialcapture overturning any existing precedent regulating businesses and the wealthy, and the incoming Republican plan to gut executive enforcement of regulations, this will have negative impacts on the public for decades.
November 27, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Court Stops the Presses: Enforcement of the CTA Has Been Enjoined Nationwide | Seyfarth Shaw LLP (Quelle f@cking surprise. Another instance of #judicialcapture enabling the #disregulation of the U.S.)
Court Stops the Presses: Enforcement of the CTA Has Been Enjoined Nationwide
As many entities are scrambling to complete and file their beneficial owner information report ("BOI") under the Corporate Transparency Act, ("CTA") before the January 1, 2025 deadline, the United…
buff.ly
December 7, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Court Stops the Presses: Enforcement of the CTA Has Been Enjoined Nationwide | Seyfarth Shaw LLP (Quelle f@cking surprise. Another instance of #judicialcapture enabling the #disregulation of the U.S.)
Short term impacts are going to come from #regulatorycapture and #judicialcapture bad actors.
I’ll focus on the term in this thread.
I’ll focus on the term in this thread.
November 16, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Short term impacts are going to come from #regulatorycapture and #judicialcapture bad actors.
I’ll focus on the term in this thread.
I’ll focus on the term in this thread.
#SCOTUS doing this and the flip side. Moving quick to block policies their backers dislike - environmental & consumer protections, corporate transparency, student loan relief. etc.
#judicialcapture
#judicialcapture
I listened to a legal podcast last week - can’t remember which one - where a guest talked about the methods of a court that wants to help the autocrat while keeping veneer of independence. It involves giving him losses on inconsequential items, and giving opposition wins after it’s too late.
January 15, 2026 at 7:03 PM
#SCOTUS doing this and the flip side. Moving quick to block policies their backers dislike - environmental & consumer protections, corporate transparency, student loan relief. etc.
#judicialcapture
#judicialcapture
🎯 THE CAPTURE PATTERN IN FULL
➤ Illegal currency — forces a legal fight
➤ App mandate — gates benefits on surveillance
➤ Alito relative at Treasury — insulates review
➤ No ethics teeth — recusal is theater
One architecture.
#JudicialCapture #Surveillance #TrumpBill
➤ Illegal currency — forces a legal fight
➤ App mandate — gates benefits on surveillance
➤ Alito relative at Treasury — insulates review
➤ No ethics teeth — recusal is theater
One architecture.
#JudicialCapture #Surveillance #TrumpBill
May 28, 2026 at 9:01 PM
🎯 THE CAPTURE PATTERN IN FULL
➤ Illegal currency — forces a legal fight
➤ App mandate — gates benefits on surveillance
➤ Alito relative at Treasury — insulates review
➤ No ethics teeth — recusal is theater
One architecture.
#JudicialCapture #Surveillance #TrumpBill
➤ Illegal currency — forces a legal fight
➤ App mandate — gates benefits on surveillance
➤ Alito relative at Treasury — insulates review
➤ No ethics teeth — recusal is theater
One architecture.
#JudicialCapture #Surveillance #TrumpBill
📜 ALITO'S RECUSAL RECORD
• Refused to recuse over undisclosed gifts/travel — ProPublica May 2023
• Nov 2023 SCOTUS ethics code has zero enforcement teeth
• Family Treasury role won't auto-trigger § 455
The Court polices itself. Which means it doesn't.
#JudicialCapture #Scotus #SCOTUSethics
• Refused to recuse over undisclosed gifts/travel — ProPublica May 2023
• Nov 2023 SCOTUS ethics code has zero enforcement teeth
• Family Treasury role won't auto-trigger § 455
The Court polices itself. Which means it doesn't.
#JudicialCapture #Scotus #SCOTUSethics
May 28, 2026 at 8:50 PM
📜 ALITO'S RECUSAL RECORD
• Refused to recuse over undisclosed gifts/travel — ProPublica May 2023
• Nov 2023 SCOTUS ethics code has zero enforcement teeth
• Family Treasury role won't auto-trigger § 455
The Court polices itself. Which means it doesn't.
#JudicialCapture #Scotus #SCOTUSethics
• Refused to recuse over undisclosed gifts/travel — ProPublica May 2023
• Nov 2023 SCOTUS ethics code has zero enforcement teeth
• Family Treasury role won't auto-trigger § 455
The Court polices itself. Which means it doesn't.
#JudicialCapture #Scotus #SCOTUSethics
Judicial security and ethics among policies passed by American Bar Association HOD in Phoenix. I'm encouraged to see the ABA aligning on first amendment protections for equity, government employees, and against abuse of forum shopping with #judicialcapture.
buff.ly
February 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Judicial security and ethics among policies passed by American Bar Association HOD in Phoenix. I'm encouraged to see the ABA aligning on first amendment protections for equity, government employees, and against abuse of forum shopping with #judicialcapture.
We need to discuss #JudicialCapture. Few people outside of the legal profession grasp the unprecedented stress a handful of partisan judges are generating. The concept of functioning government for the people is being cast aside by radical judges on behalf of political donors.
August 29, 2024 at 5:15 PM
We need to discuss #JudicialCapture. Few people outside of the legal profession grasp the unprecedented stress a handful of partisan judges are generating. The concept of functioning government for the people is being cast aside by radical judges on behalf of political donors.
This post is getting traction.
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Chris works tirelessly as a solo investigative journalist on topics like #JudicialCapture, using partisan judges to block policies that either help the public or hold businesses and politician accountable.
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Chris works tirelessly as a solo investigative journalist on topics like #JudicialCapture, using partisan judges to block policies that either help the public or hold businesses and politician accountable.
September 4, 2024 at 8:00 PM
This post is getting traction.
Follow @chrisgeidner.bsky.social!
Chris works tirelessly as a solo investigative journalist on topics like #JudicialCapture, using partisan judges to block policies that either help the public or hold businesses and politician accountable.
Follow @chrisgeidner.bsky.social!
Chris works tirelessly as a solo investigative journalist on topics like #JudicialCapture, using partisan judges to block policies that either help the public or hold businesses and politician accountable.
Which is interesting parallel to the phenomenon that happened during the Trump years. Many saw lawyers as their bulwark against executive overreach. Lawyers as superheros. It's only since the idea of #judicialcapture has penetrated the public conscious that I think @athul.acharya.cc applies.
October 22, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Which is interesting parallel to the phenomenon that happened during the Trump years. Many saw lawyers as their bulwark against executive overreach. Lawyers as superheros. It's only since the idea of #judicialcapture has penetrated the public conscious that I think @athul.acharya.cc applies.
Pakistan didn’t amend a constitution — it amputated its democracy. Courts sidelined, power centralised, people ignored. When justice bends to uniforms, nations break. How long will we pretend this is “reform”? #27thAmendment #PakistanCrisis #JudicialCapture #CivilRights
A State Betrayed | Dissident Voice
The 27th Amendment rewrites Pakistan’s rules and hands its courts and army to the powerful few. According to Santiago Canton, the ICJ Secretary General, the 27th amendment introduces changes that rais...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Pakistan didn’t amend a constitution — it amputated its democracy. Courts sidelined, power centralised, people ignored. When justice bends to uniforms, nations break. How long will we pretend this is “reform”? #27thAmendment #PakistanCrisis #JudicialCapture #CivilRights