[Judge] Benitez was confirmed despite overwhelming opposition from the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, which rates the qualifications of judicial nominees. A substantial majority of the committee rated Benitez “not qualified” and a minority rated him as “qualified.” In 2004 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the ABA committee investigator reported that, “Interviewees repeatedly told me that Judge Benitez displays inappropriate judicial temperament with lawyers, litigants, and judicial colleagues; that all too frequently, while on the bench, Judge Benitez is arrogant, pompous, condescending, impatient, short-tempered, rude, insulting, bullying, unnecessarily mean, and altogether lacking in people skills.” …
On May 1, 2024, the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit publicly disciplined Benitez for judicial misconduct because he had unlawfully ordered a teenage girl to be shackled during her father’s sentencing hearing: “First, the shackling of a spectator at a hearing who is not engaged in threatening or disorderly behavior exceeds the authority of a district judge. Second, creating a spectacle out of a minor child in the courtroom chills the desire of friends, family members, and members of the public to support loved ones at sentencing.”
Nominated in 2004 by George W. Bush. Youth tansgender suicide rates will skyrocket under this holding, but I guess that’s lockstep the GOP’s desires: more dead LGBT.
Mandatory reporters means abuse. A kid wanting to be trans without telling their parents does not equal abuse. Of course you’re being disingenuous so fundamentalist Christain parents can send their kids to conversion therapy so they can eventually commit suicide and you have zero care about the well being of the child and want to push your conservative Christian bullshit. If you werent you’d realize how low the suicide rates go down when kids are able to openly trans
You should really read up. While it is state dependent, emotional abuse is cover under mandatory reporting in most state.
I get that you’re not too bright, didn’t read the article, and didn’t really read what I wrote, but… acting like nazis and telling teachers what they can and can’t say to parents isn’t the way to defeat the nazis.