Posted on 05/11/2006 8:59:45 AM PDT by mathprof
LOL
Of course Luttig is going to issue a general statement praising Bush publicly. Doesn't mean that he respects Bush's decisions privately. Two different things.
Just more "playa-hating" from the Bush groupies, that's all.
I'm sure that money played a factor. How much does a federal judge make? $150,000?
He's going to work as the top lawyer for Boeing. He will probably make that much in a matter of weeks on the new job.
Hmmm...
I disagree with the WH on many things.
The difference between me and what seem to be a minority of narcissistic, dramaqueen, contrarian posters here...is that I do not live to express it or pretend that my disagreement somehow signals the final straw for all mankind.
Some of the bozos here...seemingly bent on finding some excuse to go little L mountain man, head for the hills and prepare for the final showdown...need to grow the hell up.
The routine is getting old for real.
Conservatism itself could descend from on high, take bodily form, run for office and a not so small coterie of the aforementioned bitter brigade would pick him apart like a school of old & bloated, armchaired pirhana.
Hard to disagree with that statement
and its doing it for political expediency
Political expediency? Huh? His poll numbers are falling like a rock!
I agree with Luttig here. Either Padilla was the 'dirty bomber' or not.
Now moving his case to federal courts to face different charges shows that the 'dirty bombing' charge was dubious.
The US citizens was deprived of his freedom for over 4 years without being charged with a crime.
I don't have a subscription, so didn't read the entire article, but I'm having a problem with this. Luttig ruled in the administration's favor because he "assumed the government had a compelling reason to consider the suspect an extraordinary threat." So he did not rule based solely on the law, or on the theory of executive power, but on an assumption of a compelling reason.
Now, because the government changed its mind, he is outraged at the "Bush administration's sweeping theories of executive power."
Did it ever occur to Luttig that the "compelling reason" had more to do with keeping Padilla isolated, than with a military trial? Or that Luttig's ruling might have compelled Padilla to give the government the info it needed, in order to avoid a military tribunal, and that a deal was struck to try him in civilian court in exchange for the info?
Then, in a fit of anger, Luttig tried to block the transfer -- based on a bruised ego or on "his assumption of a compelling reason?"
I personally think any and all of these thugs -- Moussaoui included -- should be brought before a military tribunal, but I'm not privvy to what's going on behind the scenes, and I doubt that Luttig is either.
Too bad we can't return to the good old days when judges and politicians had the decency to wait until an administration was out of office, or a war was over, to air their grievances. Instead, we have media true confessions on a daily basis.
I await the book.
We need to build a bridge to toss all of these trolls under.
Sounds like you are one of those who would admire the emperor's new clothes.
So sorry, but, wrong is wrong and ignoring wrong is wrong.
There was no "headache" involved in quitting the bench. What did I miss?
Nor is it unusual for government employees and officials to quit after a long career the government work and multiple their incomes by a huge amount. Nor anything wrong with it.
Not really most of the nonsensical posts come from the Perpetually Pissed Off, Third party quacks, the lunatic fringe of the lunatic fringe, the easily deluded and the willfully ignorant. Most of Bush's supporters come from none of those catagories.
Those who try and govern from the extremes never succeed for long in the United States. Bush is not the President of the most far right 10% but the entire nation and must compromise with those elected by the other 90% of the nation. Whether we like it or not.
He was by far the most conservative candidate in two decades and barely squeaked through in getting elected. 59 million voted for an outright traitor in 2004. That seems to have escaped your consciousness.
20% of FR says they are willing to throw it all in the toilet and let the Party of Treason get back up off its deathbed. This type of mentality would look at the score in the fourth quarter of a football game whine that the lead should be 28 pts rather than 14 pull the starting qb and put in a rookie.
We are not speaking of Brainiacs here.
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