I'm beginning to doubt the veracity of the claim about the "Federal Judge". Can anyone say there was any such change?

NAFTA involves three countries, all of which have federal court systems with federal judges in them.

Can you identify a party to the suit?

Was there a Reagan appointed Federal Judge who changed how NAFTA protected American jobs?

Thanks for answering my plea jberryhill. This was the thread from which it came.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023428751

I've tried asking this person livingwagenow on the thread and in an email via DU. I've searched as much as I'm able.

"A Ray-gun appointed federal judge took a scalpel to Clinton's NAFTA by scrapping the provisions that PROTECTED American jobs by keeping them here by striking down said provision/amendment while keeping the rest of the NAFTA law in place."

Maybe this wasn't posted in earnest. I'd like to know though, as it would be useful in debating friends on facebook.

...and sometimes in ways which change the way a law is interpreted.

On the quoted information you provided, out of hundreds of lawsuits which, in one way or another, involved NAFTA, there is not enough to go on in terms of figuring out what, if anything, the quote might be talking about.

It's as if you told me you were from New York, and I said, "Hey, I know a guy in New York. He's really tall, wears glasses, and his name is Jim. Do you know him?"

Whenever, in any argument, someone refers to a court action which did one thing or another, ask that person what case they are talking about. If they cannot cite the case they are talking about, then their point is simply unsupported.

It seemed like there would have been a real uproar if some judge came along and struck down the protection part of NAFTA. Though with all the impeachment brouhaha, it might have gone undetected.

I'm calling it a lie until proven otherwise.