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madinmaryland

(64,931 posts)
Mon Jan 20, 2014, 08:46 PM Jan 2014

Federal judge sent hundreds of racist messages

Last year, U.S. District Chief Judge Richard Cebull, an appointee of George W. Bush, was caught sending a racist email about President Obama from his courthouse chambers. At the time, Cebull, Montana’s chief federal judge for nearly five years, defended himself by saying the message “was not intended by me in any way to become public.”

It wasn’t long before the Judicial Council of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals opened a misconduct review, and on Friday, we learned that Cebull kept awfully busy disseminating offensive messages to his personal and professional contacts. The Associated Press reported over the weekend:

A former Montana judge who was investigated for forwarding a racist email involving President Barack Obama sent hundreds of other inappropriate messages from his federal email account, according to the findings of a judicial review panel released Friday.

Former U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull sent emails to personal and professional contacts that showed disdain for blacks, Indians, Hispanics, women, certain religious faiths, liberal political leaders, and some emails contained inappropriate jokes about sexual orientation, the Judicial Council of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found.

Many of the emails also related to pending issues that could have come before Cebull’s court, such as immigration, gun control, civil rights, health care and environmental issues, the council found in its March 15, 2013, order.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/federal-judge-sent-hundreds-racist-emails

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Federal judge sent hundreds of racist messages (Original Post) madinmaryland Jan 2014 OP
He was making decisions based on tripe. Hope the cases are re-tried. What a bum. n/t freshwest Jan 2014 #1
honestly, they need to be revisited Skittles Jan 2014 #6
Ouch, another fratboy walks into the propeller blades Fumesucker Jan 2014 #2
Are you thinking of 'Schadenfreude,' Nika Jan 2014 #4
Yeah, that and the one about a face that needs a fist Fumesucker Jan 2014 #8
So, if you're in any one of these groups that he disdained, you might want to MADem Jan 2014 #3
Every case that jackass adjudicated should be thoroughly reviewed. That a person like that bluestate10 Jan 2014 #11
K & R !!! WillyT Jan 2014 #5
Oh how charming etherealtruth Jan 2014 #7
I went to high school with his son. neverforget Jan 2014 #9
He resigned? hunter Jan 2014 #10

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
8. Yeah, that and the one about a face that needs a fist
Mon Jan 20, 2014, 09:10 PM
Jan 2014

It would almost be worth learning German just to be able to cuss like that.



MADem

(135,425 posts)
3. So, if you're in any one of these groups that he disdained, you might want to
Mon Jan 20, 2014, 08:55 PM
Jan 2014

challenge his ruling if it went against you--couldn't hurt....!

bluestate10

(10,942 posts)
11. Every case that jackass adjudicated should be thoroughly reviewed. That a person like that
Mon Jan 20, 2014, 10:29 PM
Jan 2014

can sit on a federal bench is stunning, that he was the chief judge in his circuit is even more unbelievable.

etherealtruth

(22,165 posts)
7. Oh how charming
Mon Jan 20, 2014, 09:09 PM
Jan 2014

... an inbred, knuckle dragging racist on the federal bench ... fills one with such confidence in our judiciary

hunter

(38,309 posts)
10. He resigned?
Mon Jan 20, 2014, 10:05 PM
Jan 2014

Shit must be deeper than hundreds of emails.

Time to look at his bank accounts and property dealings, eh?

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