Watch out, Justice Samuel Alito! You’ve got real competition when it comes to federal judges whose judicial opinions sound more like unhinged posts from an incel forum than legal writings from a professional adult.

Judge James Ho, a Donald Trump appointee who sits on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, is quickly building a name for himself as the biggest crybaby troll on the federal bench. In and out of court, the man is so whiny and obsessed with unjustified grievances, that one expects any day now for him to be outed as “ElliotRodgerFan48” on some low-rent message board. Ho is the judge who argued that, because they didn’t take away guns from convicted wife-beaters in the 19th century, the government has no right to do it now. He’s the judge who swore he would never hire a Yale graduate because Yale students, using their right to free speech, protested a leader of a hate group. He sneeringly argued that pregnancy cannot ever be a serious medical condition, questioning, “When we celebrated Mother’s Day, were we celebrating illness?” He was sworn in by Justice Clarence Thomas at the home of billionaire Harlan Crow, but Ho routinely paints himself as the victim of “elites” like, uh, college students and everyday women who need abortion access.

As James LaRock at Balls and Strikes writes, “Ho often confuses being a federal judge with being a speechwriter for a right-wing shock jock’s presidential campaign.” But even by the sub-Steven Crowder standards of Ho’s cringeworthy career, he bests himself his opinion in a recent case on whether the courts can unilaterally throw out FDA approval of mifepristone, which is part of a two-pill regimen to terminate early term pregnancies.

    • spaceghotiOP
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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Isla_Vista_killings

      Before driving to the sorority house, Rodger uploaded a video to YouTube titled “Elliot Rodger’s Retribution”, in which he outlined his planned attack and his motives. He explained that he wanted to punish women for rejecting him, and sexually active men because he envied them.

      The author is comparing the judge’s reasoning to Elliot Rodger’s. Clearly in his mind, women have no automony of their own. They exist only to entertain men with sex and childbirth.