Republican Fifth Circuit Pitches A Partisan Tantrum After President Obama Speaks Out About Supreme C

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit may be the most ideological court in the country. When the oil industry’s allies in Congress wanted to protect the industry from drilling lawsuits, they passed a bill trying to force those lawsuits into the reliably industry-friendly Fifth Circuit. When a high school cheerleader sued her school district after it made her cheer for her alleged rapist, the Fifth Circuit ordered the alleged rape victim to pay more than $40,000. When one of the court’s few progressives asked a series of probing questions to a prosecutor during a court hearing, Fifth Circuit Chief Judge Edith Jones yelled at him to “shut up” and asked him if he would like to leave the courtroom. Earlier today, however, the Fifth Circuit left the realm of mere ideology and leaped over the line into partisanship.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/04/03/457727/republican-fifth-circuit-pitches-a-partisan-tantrum-after-president-obama-speaks-out-about-supreme-court/

[zipplewrath]

1. Hate to say this

Hate to sound like Newt.

But if this is truly as partisan as it sounds (i.e. there is nothing within the court records justifying this request) congress would be well justified in reviewing this court. Truth is, a truly "independent" Supreme Court should be asked to review the REQUEST for misconduct.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Why is it so hard to find good people to serve on the benches?

Is it because everything has become to politicized?

[hifiguy]

4. There are plenty of lawyers out there who

would make fine judges. Do you honestly think Chimpy or any other Repuke is interested in putting them on the bench? Judges who strive to impartiality - and they exist, I have worked for two of them - might not make the "right" decisions.

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. I guess ...

this is what you get when our judiciary forms conclusions based on a 10 second fox"news" clip and 20 hours of limbaugh commentary.

[CAPHAVOC]

5. My advice

to the author. Do not stand before the bench in a Federal Court and accuse the judge of throwing a temper tantrum.

[eomer]

6. Sure, but nobody did that, did they?

The author wrote an article in a blog. Nobody stood before the bench and accused the judge of throwing a tantrum.