Posted on 11/15/2012 3:08:54 PM PST by NYer
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 15, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Wednesday, President Obama nominated seven judges, including a black homosexual, to the federal judiciary, saying their appointments “ensure that the judiciary resembles the nation it serves.”
Obama appointed Judge William Thomas to the Southern District of Florida. Thomas has served on the Eleventh Judicial Circuit since 2005.
“Today’s announcement…reflects the president’s historic commitment to advancing a diverse judiciary that looks like America,” said Nancy Zirkin of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. “If confirmed, these nominees would bring more women, minorities, and openly gay judges to courts to better reflect the nation they serve.”
According to Buzzfeed, “Obama has now nominated seven [homosexual] lawyers for lifetime-tenured federal judgeships, three of whom already have been approved by the Senate. Judges J. Paul Oetken and Alison Nathan both now sit on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which is in Manhattan. Judge Michael Fitzgerald sits on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.”
According to a Gallup survey released in October, homosexuals make up 3.4 percent of all American adults. Black Americans were the most likely to consider themselves homosexual. Some 4.6 percent of blacks label themselves homosexual, bisexual, or transgender, as compared to 4.3 percent of Asians, 4 percent of Hispanics, and 3.2 percent of whites.
The first black homosexual Judge Deborah Batts was appointed to the Southern District of New York by President Bill Clinton.
Judge Thomas would appear to be the model Obama voter. According to exit polls, 93 percent of black voters and more than 90 percent of homosexuals voted for Obama in 2012.
One issue that could come up in confirmation hearings is Thomas’ record presiding over a recent trial of a vicious kidnapping, gang rape, and murder, that left the victim’s mother outraged.
In September, Thomas granted a mistrial to Joel Lebron, who police say confessed to gang-raping 18-year-old Ana Maria Angel at gunpoint with four other men in April 2002, then executing her as she begged for her life along Interstate 95 in Boca Raton.
Lebron’s DNA was found inside Angel.
Thomas called the mistrial after a detective testifying in the case mentioned that one of the other men involved had already been convicted - something jurors are not supposed to know. Prosecutors argued that calling the mistrial was unnecessary.
Thomas previously threw out the confessions of Lebron and another of the assailants, 16-year-old Jesus Ramon, saying police did not read them their Miranda rights. That prompted Angel’s mother, Margarita Osorio, to speak out, saying she didn’t have confidence in Thomas as a judge.
Lebron was convicted in a subsequent trial.
Last March, Thomas ruled that a female police officer violated the civil rights of a young black man whom she shot as he fled from the scene.
The president says he hopes Congress will take up the nominations “promptly.”
Ping!
We have black homosexuals all over the place where I live. /s
Speak for yourself ZERO! He doesn’t resemble the nation - he resembles Obama.
IMHO, using homosexuality as a qualification to sit in judgment on weighty matters is both ludicrous and nonsensical. And, BTW, elevates deviance to a job requirement.
Speak for yourself ZERO! He doesn’t resemble the nation - he resembles Obama.
“ensure that the judiciary resembles the nation it serves”
So 51% of these judges are brain-dead imbeciles??
The 2-3%
Obama feels that he needs a peer to represent himself.
Better cut some eyeholes in Justice’s blindfold.
Judge Ben Dover ?
Meanwhile a federal appeals court just ruled that winning at the ballot box presented an unfair advantage over the supporters of affirmative action.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2959958/posts
It would be curious to see how rulings by these Obamafreak judges fare at the appellate level versus those of more normal judges.
This one looks like it follows the Peter Principle in two ways. Kicked up to level of incompetence, and based on what he does with his, um, peter.
If he really wants to mirror larger America, why not some judges who have murdered, robbed banks, raped, etc.? Why shouldn’t they join in the fun?
He will be resembling a fallen nation.
disgusting.... as if 3.4% represents the ENTIRE nation.
This goes along with his whole BS line about how America is not a Christian nation....but we’re all mostly Muslim.
Ugh....Dear Lord, please forgive me for the loathing I have in my heart for this man, and for those who he surrounds himself with and for those who worship him. Please forgive me for the unclean thoughts I have about them all.
Phil McCracken.
He has more sugar, than Domino!!!!!!
“So 51% of these judges are brain-dead imbeciles??”
I’ll take that. The average IQ of judges will go up about 30 points.
What a joke.
Black or white, someone who is confused or in denial about the physio-biology of their own body demonstrates a lack of of logical reasoning and ineligible to judge anything.
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