Introducing the Judge that just blocked federal funding of embryonic stem cell research

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Royce C. Lamberth, Judge, U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Nominated by Ronald Reagan on March 19, 1987

http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1333&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na

Appeal it to the DC Circuit, you know the one Obama hasn't appointed anyone to since he has been in office.

[Xipe Totec]

1. He looks like an embryo that never grew up nt

[fascisthunter]

2. an embryo that has gone bad

[HockeyMom]

3. Let's just wash them down the sinks instead

Too bad the judge is too big (fat) to do this too.

[peacebird]

4. Jabba the Hut...

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5. another small-minded cretin in a position of power...

and people wonder why we're in trouble.

[pinboy3niner]

6. WaPo: (Lamberth) Straight Shooter to Some, Loose Cannon to Others

Players: Royce C. Lamberth
Straight Shooter to Some, Loose Cannon to Others

By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 15, 2005

The fans of U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth praise his straight-talking ways, his defense of the wronged, and his stinging rebukes of lawyers and officials who try to fudge the facts.

So many decades after he left his beloved Texas and cowboy roots for a legal career in government service, fellow judges and former colleagues say, old Royce still gets riled up when he smells a bunch of bull.

When Lamberth theorized in a July ruling that the Interior Department's failure, over many decades, to account for potentially billions of dollars owed to Native Americans could only be explained by outright evil, apathy, cowardice or -- more likely -- crushing bureaucratic incompetence, the Justice Department decided to go after the judge.

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/14/AR2005091402616.html

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7. That's not fair

Lamberth blocked the suit against this same pro-embryo group last year (ruling that an embryo is not a human being under law), he blocked that suit against Hillary, he found the CIA to be in quasi-contempt over surveillance shenanigans...

He's not a Scalia type as far as I know.

He appears to have been upholding the law as intended... do you doubt that the Congress that passed the law intended the stem-cell ban to be sweeping?

Sorry, but I hate seeing judges get slapped around for doing their job. Congress passes some heinous shit and judges are bound to uphold its heinousness or strike it down on Constitutional grounds. (Grounds which are not apparent in this case.)