Trump judge loves white nationalism so much he had to give it an award
If you have been curious about what the “viewpoint neutrality” celebrated by conservatives looks like in practice, look no further than the University of Florida Law School. That’s where one of Donald Trump’s first-term judicial appointees, U.S. District Judge John Badalamenti, rewarded an openly white nationalist and antisemitic student for writing an openly white nationalist paper arguing that the Constitution only applies to white people.
This all went down last fall when Badalamenti taught a course on originalism, or the belief that the Constitution should be interpreted based on the Founding Fathers’ “original "meaning. For his capstone paper, Preston Damsky wrote a racist screed, which you can read here if you feel up to it. This thing is not subtle, but Badalamenti still gave Damsky the “book award” when the semester ended, effectively naming him the best student in the class.
Damsky says that the Founding Fathers “unambiguously conceived of the United States as a white country.” He calls for banning all nonwhite people from immigrating to the United States but shows what he thinks is great magnanimity by assuring us that “non-whites would still be able to visit the U.S., without becoming residents, because tourism is not immigration.” He thinks birthright citizenship should not apply to the children of noncitizens, and he believes there is an invasion at the border—and the military should be able to kill border crossers. Oh, and also, we should get rid of the 14th and 15th Amendments, just for good measure.
Here’s a taste of Damsky’s scintillating argument:
However, given that the United States was founded as a race-based nation state for the preservation and betterment of White Americans (the People), as clearly laid out in the Preamble and revealed by our history, it is difficult to see how these amendments (or at least the way they have been interpreted in the post-World War II era) do not amount to unconstitutional, revolutionary usurpations by the constituted government power.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/26/2330081/-Trump-judge-loves-white-nationalism-so-much-he-had-to-give-it-an-award
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