Junk judge John McConnell is helping destroy democracy, just like Hannah Dugan

Another day, another judge burdened by obvious conflicts of interest rules against the Trump administration’s sane and necessary policies. US District Judge John McConnell has ordered the reversal of Team Trump’s freeze on certain forms of federal assistance, yet he sat for nearly two decades on the board of a homeless services provider, Crossroads Rhode Island, rising to chair it — and the Crossroads group directly benefited from federal grants via the Department of Housing and Urban Development to the tune of more than $15 million since 2010. This astonishing fact came to light thanks to a complaint filed against Judge McConnell by America First Legal, a conservative watchdog group. McConnell’s chief defense is that he left the board in April of 2024, as if that somehow makes it kosher.How many friends does he still have on the board? How much direct communication does he still have with the overall group? How on earth could he ever be expected to rule without favor here?These questions show how insane it is a judge would ever sit on the board of such an organization to begin with. And how much more insane that someone with this kind of entanglement would fail to recuse himself in a related case. But that’s how it goes with our tinpot bench emperors: The rules don’t apply to them, and they are more powerful than the Commander in Chief and wiser than the voters. Like Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan, now indicted for allegedly helping an illegal immigrant evade ICE. Or DC Circuit Judge James Boasberg, who ruled against Trump’s move to deport criminal illegal aliens even as his daughter works at a nonprofit getting millions in taxpayer dollars and headed up by an opponent of the Laken Riley Act. Somehow, it’s always these Defenders of Democracy who end up being its frontline destroyers. ...