Short Circuit: Breakdown of Trust Led Judge Luttig To Clash With Bush

Wall Street Journal Online ^ | 5/11/2006 | Jess Bravin & J. Lynn Lunsford

[Paul Ross]

So the Supreme Court abandoned the high ground, too? They, after all, agreed with the Bush administration, contra Luttig.

I don't think you understand what happened there. The Gonzales fear was that the Padilla case would go against them...so they caved in pre-emptively. For the Court to then side with the Administration when post-handling motions sua sponte by the 4th Circuit were struck down did not get to the substantive rights issues at the heart of the dispute. Fortunately. But the Administration was hardly proved "right."

Luttig's friends do him no good service putting this out. It makes him look petty and childish.

It doesn't look "petty" or "childish" to me...or almost any real conservative.

[Paul Ross]

If true, this is behavior unbecoming of a judge and we should all be glad he's off of the bench.

Which part? And then how so?

[WOSG]

Luttig is on the conservative short-list of candidates for USSC, so whatever the reason, it's a loss for conservatives to see him go to the private sector.