"Judge VanDyke has constructed a reputation for himself as the judiciary's most decorum-shredding troll. There's stiff competition for that position, to be sure, but he outdid himself with this dissent. He began it this way: "This is a case about swinging dicks." And it only gets worse from there."
"VanDyke-a Donald Trump appointee to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals-attempted to shame his fellow judges with lewd descriptions of genitalia and ultrapartisan complaints about trans antidiscrimination laws, which he derided as "Frankenstein social experiments.""
Judge Lawrence VanDyke, a Trump appointee to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, issued a crude dissent criticizing his colleagues for protecting transgender women's rights. He used lewd language and vulgar descriptions while deriding antidiscrimination laws as "Frankenstein social experiments." His dissent crossed from attention-seeking behavior into outright vulgarity, triggering an extraordinary response from 29 of his fellow judges spanning the entire ideological spectrum. The incident raises concerns about judicial independence and suggests VanDyke may be performing for President Trump's attention. Legal commentators Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed the implications of this unprecedented judicial rebuke.
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