Active Judges Taken Trips to Israel – AKA Being Bought Our by Israel
So I started a program right when the war started to take United States federal judges to Israel. We’ve taken one trip after another. 10% of all the active federal judges in the United States have gone just in the last three years.
Federal Judge Roy Altman on Taking State Supreme Court Justices to Israel
Then we’d come back and I started getting calls from these state Supreme Court justices. Have you heard of these people? They’re kind of like me, but much less powerful. That’s all you need to know.
In fact, I was in Austin, Texas a few months ago, and I heard that’s the liberal part of the state, right? I was in Austin, Texas and the entire front row was the Texas Supreme Court, and I said, what a bunch of suck ups you all are. You know, I can’t take you all anyway. You know, I got to diversify amongst the states. I can only take one person from Texas. So whoever’s going to go is going to have to play rock, paper, scissors, see who wins, you know?
Then I started giving my speech. I looked down two minutes later and these Supreme Court justices were going like this. So they called and they nagged and I said, listen, I don’t got time for you people, you know? They said, what’s with the discrimination? How come only United States federal judges get to go? Well, I’m proud to say I just landed from the first ever trip of state Supreme Court justices from the United States to Israel.
I was astonished. Not just by their bravery, leaving it all behind to travel thousands of miles away to a teeny tiny country in the desert.
By What United States Federal Judges said About their Experience.
One justice texted her husband and said, I’ll never be the same person again. I don’t know if that was a good thing or a bad thing for the husband, you know? When these judges come back from Israel, they send me letters. In those letters, they tell me that this, aside from marriage and children and their appointment as United States federal judges, that these trips to Israel have been the most transformational events of their entire lives.
