Judge reams right-wing colleague's screeching appeal to Supreme Court

Systemic Error Podcast · Aug 28, 2026 · 4m

VanDyke Wants a “Benchslap” Because Law Is Not the PointA Ninth Circuit panel refused to rehear a challenge to California’s switchblade ban, and Judge Lawrence VanDyke used his dissent to demand that the Supreme Court summarily reverse more Second Amendment rulings across the circuit. Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw answered that the panel was right, that VanDyke was attacking colleagues rather than the case, and that his own rhetoric went well beyond ordinary disagreement.The Power Behind the PerformanceThe institutional power here is not the knife-rights plaintiffs. It is the bench itself…