[ May 3, 2024 ]
Judicial tyranny and corruption.
Federal judge who blocked Trump’s border wall donated $20K to Obama
By Vaishnavee Sharma , Washington Examiner, May 26, 2019:
A federal judge who partially blocked President Trump’s plans to build a border wall along the United States-Mexico border previously donated almost $30,000 to former President Obama, other Democrats, and a political action committee.
Story continues below advertisementU.S. District Court Judge Haywood Gilliam, an Obama appointee confirmed in 2014, donated $6,900 to Barack Obama’s debut campaign for president and $14,500 to his reelection campaign, according to federal election records. The same records also indicate he contributed $4,500 to the Democratic National Committee in 2012 and, between 2012 and 2015, sent $3,100 to the Covington Burling LLP PAC, which supports candidates from both parties. His contributions totaled $28,000.
Gilliam made the donations, first reported by the Epoch Times, prior to serving as a U.S. District judge. He had said during his confirmation hearing that he “would base my decisions solely on the facts of each case and the applicable precedent, without regard to any political ideology or motivation,” and that “any personal views would not interfere in any way with my ability to neutrally apply the law.”
Gilliam is one of three federal judges who have donated to Democratic candidates in the past and recently ruled against the Trump administration.
U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos and U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, both Obama appointees, ruled to release Trump’s financial documents demanded by Democratic subpoenas as investigations into President Trump continue in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. U.S. Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the Mueller report stated that while it “does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him,” and Democrats have insisted the report provides a basis for further investigations into the Trump campaign.
Ramos, who ruled that Deutsche Bank and Capital One can provide House Democrats with Trump’s financial records, donated $4,025 to Obama’s 2008 campaign for president, and also contributed $1,000 his then rival, Hillary Clinton. He made further donations to other Democrats, such as Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., and Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., who serve on the House Financial Services and Intelligence committees. Ramos does not appear to have made political donations since being appointed to the federal court in 2011.
Mehta, who ruled against blocking a congressional committee’s subpoena of Mazars USA, Trump’s accounting firm, also donated $1,000 to Obama’s first campaign and doubled his donation for the former president’s reelection bid. Mehta also appeared to stop political donations after his 2014 federal appointment.
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57 Comments
4 years ago
No coincidence.
Our legal system has been politicized. Where is the GOP in impeaching or removing these judges?
Where is the indignation by the GOP for blocking the wall?
It’s because with few exceptions, the GOP also wants Trump OUT.
Trump is doing what he can.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Well we can hope when SCOTUS gets this, they will vote 9-0 against this rogue, Demoncratic “judge”.
4 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
Agree. Left/Libs/feminists welcome illegals/jihadis and run around like cowards after they start committing gang rapes, assaults http://bit.ly/2uHm0YC
And they want more with open borders ! stupid or insane ?
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
amen. there is little difference between the democrat party as a whole and the repubs in the senate. almost without exception, they are together a domestic enemy known as the deep state
4 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
we elected them but they lied. they are in government for the power and the money and don’t want to give that up to a non politician, Romney is a good example of that, except for him it’s only about the power, already had the money. I think all politicians should show their tax returns every year, after all, we pay their salaries. I’d like to see just how wealthy they have become since getting elected.
4 years ago
Reply to
notme123
YOU elected Trump and he lied over two hundred tomes swearing Mexico would pay 100% for the wall. You dead politicians show taxes but completely ignore Trump promised to show his taxes and is now breaking the law refusing to honor a legal request to turn over his taxes. You want to see how everyone became wealthy but Trump. You are a perfect example of how the right wing has made Trump double standard hypocrisy a messianic cult religion.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr. (nominated by Obama) on Friday immediately halted the administration’s efforts to redirect military-designated funds to build sections of wall on the Mexican border.
Congress and the District courts have NO STANDING over a executive branch national security matter.
Idiot Trump fails to use his Constitutional Commander In Chief powers and plays the fool to a leftist Congress and District Courts when he does not have to.
The SCOTUS would back Trump up, but the fool will not go there.
Who has been advising Trump the last 2 years? Carrot Top?
4 years ago
Reply to
CharlieSeattle
Perhaps he should just go down the Obama list of Judges . . . and “FIRE” them all . . . like Klinton did !
4 years ago
Herr Trump’s promised Wall
looks very ridiculous so far.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-21/federal-wall-funding-of-1-57-billion-yields-1-7-miles-of-fence
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Never heard about this Gilliam. He seems to have a monkey
brain that should have been replaced by Ben Carson. Ben’s
first attempt to separate Siamese twins was/were German/s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_and_Benjamin_Binder
http://pages.jh.edu/~jhumag/0205web/separate.html
4 years ago
don’t forget, the repub-controlled senate approved these affirmative action water boys. the muslim would not have accomplished a thing without the aid of the repub senate and judges put on the court by the repub senate
4 years ago
Reply to
jayme
the muslim who stated “my muslim faith” on a national tv broadcast, the muslim who has a muslim step-father (thereby making him a muslim in islam), the muslim who started the ramadan dinner at the white house, the muslim who told the world that the 1st amendment doesn’t apply if you are slandering his prophet, and the muslim to whom the most beautiful sound in the world is the cat-strangling call to worship in the muslim world….that muslim
4 years ago
So you can buy a seat on the bench with the ignorant libturd criminals? The only good libturd is a dead libturd!!!!
4 years ago
It will be overturned.
What he did was illegal.
Wait for it.
4 years ago
So a Demokkkrat-Nastie Judge is also anti-American and pro-criminal? … Who knew?
4 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
Ten kisses from me, too, five pats on
the back and (at least) three upvotes!
http://b1ff5939f6.nxcli.net/2019/05/le-pen-wins-beats-president-macron-in-france-as-freedom-parties-gain-in-eu-vote.html/#comment-4478208755
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
It’s just embarrassing for all mankind what idiotic “questions”
people ask here and are “upgraded with points” for that. It
devalues not only Mrs. Geller, but also all decent readers.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
These guys “think” with their asses because they got their
“heads” screwed onto their bodies only to comb their hair.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Actually, you couldn’t care less. It is
only deeply annoying and constantly
reminds you of the state of our society.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
One calls himself like a cat, the other
wants to look like one on his pic. But
both can’t add two and two together.
They’re embarrassing even for cats!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Klein
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
What a raving lot of drivel you’ve written. What “questions” have been asked “here”? What points have been “upgraded”? Do you rate your idiotic self a “decent reader”? What have you been smoking?
4 years ago
Reply to
Dorrie - Conservative
Thanks Dorrie – hope you had a great weekend …
and may you and yours have a great week!
4 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
…but the worse is, these corrupt bastards are still running around free !!
4 years ago
Reply to
Hans Wellington
Quite true. … As a federal judge once told me …
A retired US Federal Judge is the closest thing to a “god” you can find in America. …
The comment was not offered to be arrogant. He said it as a critical remark about his colleagues. They have lost sight of their respect for the law … but also for their fiduciary duty to the community they serve and to nation at large.
I wish I had a simple answer for the “judge” problem – but I don’t.
As with so many things that are wrong about the government – the real issue is the personnel as much as it is the rules, the procedures, or the law.
These people have to go … but the trouble is … who are we going to replace them with?
The bozos coming out of law school today are pro-criminal Leftists who hate the community *plus* they are ignorant and they’re idiots.
They don’t know anything, and they’re not smart enough to be called liars … cause they are too stupid to know they’re repeating lies.
It’s enough to make one rip one’s hair out …
Have a great week Hans, hope you and yours had a great weekend, and thank you for enduring my ranting … 😉
4 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
“The bozos coming out of law school today are pro-criminal Leftists who hate the community *plus* they are ignorant and they’re idiots.” Wow. That doesnt leave me too hopeful for our future. That sounds like a problem that will only get worse.
4 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Yes, it will get worse before it gets better, but …
Be of good cheer … our side has truth, justice, and the Lord is on our side …
We also have Santa Claus. 😉
And I believe most of us would make the right decisions if told the truth …
That’s why the Left must silence us.
We will win. The fight is all about how much of our time, treasure, and blood the Left will spill before they are defeated.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
my relative worked in a court in the 60s-it was like a daily episode of some really bad soap opera, dynasty, etc.They were all screwing each other, affairs galore, while judge wanted to fire my relative for wearing pants instead of a skirt.
4 years ago
Gilliam made the donations, first reported by the Epoch Times, prior to serving as a U.S. District judge. He had said during his confirmation hearing that he “would base my decisions solely on the facts of each case and the applicable precedent, without regard to any political ideology or motivation,” and that “any personal views would not interfere in any way with my ability to neutrally apply the law.”
Gilliam is one of three federal judges who have donated to Democratic candidates in the past and recently ruled against the Trump administration.
Yup, his decisions are solely based on facts. I call BULLSH!T !!
4 years ago
Gawd…. resembles obama. This guy appoints people that resemble him. Weird. Loretta Lynch looks like his mother.
4 years ago
Take a look at this judge & you’ll see why.
4 years ago
Another half breed. Why am I not surprised. That’s quite a lot of money he’s giving away. How much of a dint did that make in his salary? I’m surprised it it legal for judges to make contributions to political parties.
4 years ago
The trouble with buying a judge is that you have the added worry of whether or not they will stay bought.
4 years ago
OK so now we officially know what we have already known all along. Now what? Will their orders be negated? Will they be removed from the bench? Will they go to jail?
4 years ago
Theses judges seem to have to much power and it should be stopped
4 years ago
These (DNC) = DemocRATic Nationalist COMMUNIST party members MUST be called before the “barr”, then stripped of their “judge credentials”, DISBARRED and never to hold any public connected office work of any kind. The Public should be screaming for the removal of these communistic judges who have OVERSTEPPED their authority by trying to LEGISLATE LAW via the court system.
4 years ago
Took one look at that picture and said that is a homo if I ever saw one. I do believe I am right cannot find a spouse for him in any bio.
4 years ago
The first motion to file when this case was filed should have been a motion to recuse the judge from hearing the case based on a well known political bias. Of course, the judge would deny the motion which can then be appealed to the Senior District Judge and then to the court of appeals and then to SCOTUS. In the meantime, the case is delayed and the wall is built and the issue becomes moot. Whoever is running these cases in the DOJ are fools ot embedded Obama agents.
4 years ago
agree, he should have recused himself, conflict of interests. I guess the dems take the blindfold off the image of justice when it suits them
4 years ago
Reply to
notme123
But not A.G. Barr who wrote the perfect example of a 19 page extreme conflict of interest job interview to help Trump get off from being indicted for ten specific examples of illegal obstruction. I guess YOU put the blind fold on when it affects Trump and take it off when you want be a massive double standard hypocrite about Democrats.
4 years ago
Reply to
jayme
You have the blind fold on. I investigate for myself and draw my on conclusions. Not like individuals like you who are conditioned to believe only what their puppet masters tell them, you are on your way off the cliff. So sad.
4 years ago
Reply to
notme123
You have given no indication you do any credible research or reach conclusions based of factual information, nor do you have the remotest idea where I get my facts. You did fail to honesty address, nor legitimately refuted nmy previous comment.
4 years ago
Reply to
jayme
By the way, do you even know what I’m talking about when I said “blindfold”?
4 years ago
Reply to
notme123
You have a lot of nerve criticizing me, when you are deliberately and dishonestly failing to address, nor legitimately refuting my previous comments. I suggest you show you understand what the term “obfuscation” means.
4 years ago
A black liberal prick!
4 years ago
That judge had no business hearing that case. He should step down for his lack of sound judgement.
4 years ago
sent him to the Ranch!
4 years ago
So much for impartiality. The system isn’t perfect and because of actions like this from a bias person in authority he needs to be removed from the bench with out a pension as a warning to others that this type of behavior will not be tolerated.
