John Badalamenti
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... John Leonard Badalamenti (born August 22, 1973)[1] is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

He was appointed in 2020 by President Donald Trump. He previously served as a judge on the Florida Second District Court of Appeal from 2015 to 2020. ...

While teaching a seminar on originalism as an adjunct at University of Florida School of Law in the fall of 2024, Badalamenti gave an award to a student paper arguing that the Constitution of the United States favors white people, an award which is "automatically given to the student with the highest score" and that "sounds more prestigious than it is."[9][10]

In spring of 2025, the author of that paper, Preston Damksy, publicly called for Jewish people to be "abolished by any means necessary."[11] ...