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A MAGA JUDICIARY
The Atlantic
|January - February 2024
Thanks to Donald Trump's presidential term, the conservative legal movement has been able to realize some of its wildest dreams: overturning the constitutional right to an abortion, ending affirmative action in college admissions, and potentially making most state-level firearm restrictions presumptively unconstitutional.

That movement long predates Trump, and these goals were long-standing. But, like the rest of conservatism, much of the conservative legal movement has also been remade in Trump's vulgar, authoritarian image, and is now preparing to go further, in an endeavor to shield both Trump and the Republican Party from democratic accountability.
The federal judiciary has become a battleground in a right-wing culture war that aims to turn back the clock to a time when conservative mores-around gender, sexuality, race-were unchallenged and, in some respects, unchallengeable. Many of the federal judges appointed during Trump's presidency seem to see themselves as foot soldiers in that war, which they view as a crusade to restore the original meaning of the Constitution. Yet in practice, their rulings have proved to be little more than Trump-era right-wing punditry with cherry-picked historical citations.
The 2016 Trump administration was focused on quickly filling the judiciary with judges who are not just ideologically conservative but dedicated right-wing zealots. But that administration "didn't have all of the chess pieces completely lined up" to get right-wing ideologues into every open seat, Jake Faleschini, of the liberal legaladvocacy group Alliance for Justice, told me. More restrained conservative jurists filled some of those seats. Trump and his allies will be better prepared next time, he said. "Those chess pieces are very well lined up now." The federal district judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a former anti-abortion activist, is the prototypical Trumpist judge.
He has publicly complained about the sexual revolution, no-fault divorce, "very permissive policies on contraception," and marriage equality, and has opposed nondiscrimination protections for the LGBTQ community. And like many of his Trump-appointed peers, Kacsmaryk has predictably issued rulings flouting precedent when doing so is consistent with his personal morals.
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