Matthew J. Kacsmaryk (photo, left; bio here), 43, is one of many young lawyers President Trump fished out of the Federalist Society, a conservative lawyers’ organization, and put on the federal bench.
Now Kacsmaryk thinks he’s president.
Vox describes him as “a Trump judge in Texas who essentially seized control of much of the United States’ southern border policy.”
He’s also a soon-to-be-shot-down judge who “appears likely to join the small cohort of Republican judges who went so far out on a limb that even this Supreme Court will not tolerate their behavior.” (See story here.)
What did Kacsmaryk do to earn this negative attention? He’s the judge who ordered the Biden administration to reinstate Trump’s so-called “remain in Mexico” policy, using an interpretation of immigration law so narrow that “no administration has ever complied with [it].”
Vox says his reading of the law “isn’t just wrong, it is obviously wrong” (if you want to know why, read the Vox article), and predicts the Supreme Court will reverse Kacsmaryk’s ruling, not least because his orders will put Mexico in a position to blackmail the U.S. government, although Vox also predicts they’ll drag their feet as long as possible to harass the Biden administration.
Trump filled the federal judiciary with young ideologues who will be around for decades. It looks like the appellate courts are going to be busy.