Conservative judge slams 'personal attacks' on judiciary
Source: Associated Press
Sudhin Thanawala, Associated Press Updated 8:11 pm, Thursday, March 16, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A conservative federal appellate court judge who was a key author of the so-called torture memos under the Bush administration criticized personal attacks on the judiciary even while defending President Donald Trump's authority to ban travelers from mostly Muslim nations.
Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jay Bybee did not mention President Donald Trump by name. But the judge said in a court filing Wednesday that "personal attacks" on the district court judge and 9th Circuit judges who blocked the administration's first travel ban were "out of all bounds of civic and persuasive discourse."
"Such personal attacks treat the court as though it were merely a political forum in which bargaining, compromise, and even intimidation are acceptable principles," he wrote. "The courts of law must be more than that, or we are not governed by law at all."
Trump referred to U.S. District Court Judge James Robart in Seattle as a so-called judge after Robart suspended the administration's first travel ban. He called the 9th Circuit's decision disgraceful and has said the court is in turmoil. Judge Neil Gorsuch, Trump's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, has also criticized the president's attacks on the judiciary, according to U.S. Senators.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Conservative-judge-slams-personal-attacks-on-11008051.php
still_one
(91,947 posts)elleng
(130,127 posts)that is, Solly Mack did:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1729414
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)So he knows all of these bastards, and for years was complicit with their skullduggery.
WhiteTara
(29,676 posts)Or just protecting his turf?
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)WhiteTara
(29,676 posts)Grins
(7,134 posts)Jay Bybee? The author of the worst of the Bush torture memos? An act even worse than the bullshit about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? The guy who argued Bush should pardon anyone convicted of torture? A judge who had previously written that jurors on such cases engage in illegal, unlawful, jury nullification? That Bybee?
Like health care, disease, finance, you-name-it - it's all bullshit until it comes around to hit them personally. Personally.
No doubt unemployable by any sane law firm, Bybee was nominated to the 9th circuit court nomination by President George W. Bush in the most pernicious act of a most pernicious administration, by a president who KNEW that Bybee had authored those memos.
As if I didn't need another reason to despise Chuck Schumer - Schumer supported Bybee's nomination.