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Related: About this forumFifth Circuit Removes Judge From Terrorism Case for Anti-Government Bias
Finding a Houston federal judge who called Justice Department prosecutors blue-suited thugs and compared the government to the Islamic State in refusing to impose a longer sentence on a man convicted of supporting the terrorist group, a Fifth Circuit panel on Thursday scrapped the sentence and ordered the case be reassigned to another judge.
U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes, a 79-year-old Ronald Reagan appointee, has developed a reputation as a feisty contrarian over his 35 years on the federal bench, prone to didactic tangents and rants about governments from the city to the federal level trampling on individual and corporate rights.
Federal prosecutors appealed after Hughes sentenced Asher Abid Khan to 18 months in prison in June 2018, after Khan pleaded guilty to providing material support to the Islamic State group, as known as ISIS.
https://www.courthousenews.com/fifth-circuit-removes-judge-from-terrorism-case-for-anti-government-bias/
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Lot of reform work being done at a lot of levels. Good.
msfiddlestix
(7,264 posts)Never knew a Judge could reassign a case from one Judge to another for whatever reasons.
That's interesting. I wonder why it doesn't happen more frequently. Or maybe it does and I just never read about it before.
I think that's good, but I can see how that might be abused. However, for the stated reasons reported here, that's a good call. IMO.
3Hotdogs
(12,197 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,264 posts)A panel of Judges making that kind of decision is far better than a single Judge.
Still, I can't recall ever hearing about that sort of thing happening before. Still, interesting.
marble falls
(56,353 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(143,998 posts)The 5th Cir. is full of assholes