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When it comes to disgraceful attacks on our liberty by Barack Obama it is becoming hard to separate fact from fiction. Nevertheless, here’s a new Obama stunt that defies explanation. Stories like this can’t be made up. To fill an opening on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, Obama has nominated Robert N. Chatigny a man who defended vicious serial killer Michael Ross but later claimed he “forgot” having done so. Tried to help vicious predator beat death penalty Ross was so clearly guilty that he confessed to the raping and murdering of eight women, none older...

Note: Photo and video included. "Obama’s Appeals Court Nominee Sent to Full Senate with Record of Leniency for Sex Offenders, Serial Killer" SNIPPET: "U.S. District Judge Robert Chatigny of Connecticut took what many considered extraordinary judicial actions in 2005 to prevent the execution of a serial killer, and the judge also has a record of lenient sentencing for sex offenders. Nevertheless, the Senate Judiciary Committee, on a party-line vote, sent his nomination to the full Senate on Thursday. The committee vote was 11-7-1, with only Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, abstaining. All the Republicans voted against the nomination. “This...

A contrite Robert Chatigny apologized dozens of times to Senate Republicans at a brutal hearing Wednesday for his conduct relating to the conviction of a notorious serial killer. But his face – lips puckered, brow furrowed – may have said more than any of his answers. The questions were so painful that Chatigny’s Republican tormentors repeatedly apologized for broaching them.

President Barack Obama's nominee to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals evidently doesn't know the difference between a motive and an excuse. Judge Robert Chatigny, a federal court judge based in Connecticut, was picked by the president despite a judicial record which includes trying to bully a convicted serial killer's attorney into delaying his client's execution despite lower court rulings and the client's own instructions, Or perhaps he was picked because of such an attempt at judicial activism.

President Obama's judicial nominees are getting more dangerous with each White House announcement. If you don't believe us, consider one judge's opinion that the "sexual sadism" of a multiple rapist-murderer was "clearly a mitigating factor" that argued against executing the murderer and perhaps even against convicting him in the first place. Or that a type of Megan's Law sex-offender registry should be overturned because it "stigmatizes nondangerous registrants." Even a child-porn convict should serve a sentence less than half as long as official guidelines suggest if his mental and emotional condition is fragile. U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny of...

The Senate Judiciary Committee has postponed the hearing for a controversial Court of Appeals nominee after the panel received a letter from a home-state prosecutor blasting the candidate as a judicial loose cannon and after Republicans raised concerns about bias in favor of sex offenders. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chatigny gained notoriety in 2005 for his role in trying to fight the execution of convicted serial killer and rapist Michael Ross, also known as The Roadside Strangler, whom Chatigny had described as a victim of his own "sexual sadism." His conduct in that case, which included threatening to go...

  Here Comes the Judge, There Goes the LawFebruary 3, 2005 I have a way to keep Roe v. Wade the law of the land and still bring an end to abortion.  Just impose the same nonsensical logic to the execution of fetuses that the liberals impose on convicted murderers.  In the end, it “would cost more to kill the baby than sentencing him to a life on Earth”.  Or, as Chief U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny would say, “I don’t want to be responsible anymore”.  And thus spoke the liberal.   Chatigny is the Federal Judge who just gave a...