Judge assigned to Libby case has links to Republican Right.

[DrBlix]

October 30, 2005 -- Judge assigned to Libby case has links to Republican Right.
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US District Judge for DC Reggie Walton has been assigned the Lewis Libby case.
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It is noteworthy to point out Walton's past and current links to the Republican Right and to elements in the Bush administration who have covered up important details about 911.
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Walton was appointed to the DC Superior Court in 1981 by Ronald Reagan.
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In 1989, he was appointed by George H. W. Bush as the deputy drug czar under Bill Bennett.
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Walton was reappointed to the DC Superior Court by the senior Bush.
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George W. Bush nominated Walton to the US District Court for DC in 2001.
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Walton was the judge who, under pressure from the Justice Department, placed a gag order on former FBI translator and whistleblower __Sibel Edmonds and cleared his courtroom of the public and media in Edmonds' hearing in her case against the FBI. Edmonds brought to light important information about how the FBI failed to translate important wiretap intercepts before and after 911.
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http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

[deadparrot]

1. On AAR, they were saying that he's "not a defendant's judge," however. nt

[KaryninMiami]

2. Guess we should have expected this. Now what?

Is there any recourse when a judge is clearly determined to be partisan? Obviously there are some who are partisan but most are not as outwardly partisan as this one appears to be.

[janx]

3. I'm not worried about it. n/t

[mtowngman]

4. This is a shocker, isn't it?

[janx]

8. No.

Look at what happened in all of the Schiavo cases...People assumed that political partisanship would trump justice.

It did not.

[NanceGreggs]

5. Well, there goes Tom DeLay's judge-shopping trip.

What's sauce for the goose ...

[Kagemusha]

6. Sounds like an anti-leaker judge to me.

Seems he takes exposure of secrets very seriously.

[Roland99]

7. HFS!!!!!!! He's the one that put the gag order on Sibel Edmonds?!?!?

Fvck me to tears!

[Fridays Child]

9. Wayne Madsen...I don't know about this guy.

Seems that he publishes unsubstantiated stuff, pretty regularly. And, while this judge's connections may be fact, I've tended to take what Madsen has to say on any given subject with a grain of salt.

[skids]

11. I think of him as Michael Moore, but packing a gun.

Salt required. But no more than a couple of grains.

[Erika]

10. Yeah if DeLay whines about having a democratic judge

it means it's all about politics, right? The right-wingers have politicized our court system and paralyzed it. They, in essence, have destroyed our judicial system through their partisanship. They have undermined the Constitution of which they proclaim to protect.

[cantstandbush]

12. Isn't he the judge who dismissed Sibel Edmonds suit? n/t

[cynatnite]

13. Let me get this straight...

The judge sided with the government.

Fitzgerald represents the government and is a strictly by the book guy who goes for the sure thing.

Why are we supposed to be worried?

[DrBlix]

14. Recusal of judge

Judge Reggie Walton assigned to Libby case: Recusal of judge appointed to the bench by two Bush ptresidents should have been sought by prosecutor

[hang a left]

15. He may have to recuse himself if * is implicated.

Which I fully expect to happen.

[cassiepriam]

16. Libby will appeal to the SC, and they will overturn any conviction?