by Ted Noel MD, America Outloud:

Chief Justice Roberts famously said that we don’t have Republican or Democrat judges. This was an obvious attempt to defuse leftist arguments around the Dobbs abortion decision that the Supreme Court is illegitimate and ought to be changed/abolished or otherwise transformed into a rubber stamp for leftist legal positions. Unfortunately for the Chief, he’s simply wrong and should know better.

“Judge shopping” is a fine art in legal circles. If you want a conservative judge, North Texas is fertile ground, and you can file in a single-judge district. That way, you know exactly which judge you’ll get. If you want Leftist judges who will certify class action torts easily, Austin or some remote parts of Alabama pop up. Of course, if you really want federal courts that will sign off on gun bans, you’ll file in the 9^th (CA, etc), 2^nd (NY, CT, VT), 3^rd (DE, NJ, PA), or 7^th (Il, WI, IN) circuits. Those areas are reliably anti-Second Amendment jurisdictions. Roberts knew that because SCOTUS told courts in those places to straighten up and fly right with the Bruen decision in 2022. But only the 9^th seems to have listened.