you know.... that's reaching. But let me see. If a federal court decides that it's unconstitutional for Florida to have voting laws, that's just fine. But if a federal court decides it's unconstitutional to enquire in the the daily lives of blameless millions... it's time to man the barricades.
C'mon Sam. On 8/17/06, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you want Ruish's take? > > "Rumors in Washington has it that the House Judiciary Committee may > hold hearings into the events surrounding the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court > of Appeals' 5-4 decision upholding the University of Michigan Law > School's affirmative action program. In a rare break with judicial > comity, two judges in the court publicly questioned the procedures > that Chief Judge Boyce Martin, a Carter appointee, had set out in the > case... Chief Judge Anna Diggs Taylor of the federal District Court in > Detroit tried to take the suit against the law school away from Judge > Bernard Freedman, who had been assigned it through a blind draw," > which is the standard way these things happen. Case goes to a court, > whoever is up next on the docket gets the case. > > This babe, Chief Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, Carter appointee, tried to > take this case away from the judge, Bernard Freedman, "who had been > assigned it through a blind draw and who was suspected of being > skeptical about affirmative action." The judge who was assigned the > case was suspected of being skeptical about affirmative action. He was > suspected! So this Stalinist judge, Anna Diggs Taylor, said, "Well, we > can't have somebody that's biased that way. We need somebody like me, > biased my way, toward affirmative action. That's what's fair in my > courtroom." At any rate, she wanted to "consolidate it with a similar > suit against the university's undergraduate admissions practice, which > Judge Patrick Duggan was hearing. The chief judge dropped that effort > was dropped after the judge hearing the law school complaint went > public with a blistering opinion objecting to what he termed 'the > highly irregular' effort of the chief judge," which would be Anna > Diggs Taylor. > > That is a break with tradition. Normally what goes on behind closed > doors and courts is never known. But she was trying to take the case > away, because she suspected the judge who had been assigned the case > was dubious of affirmative action. Can't have that. Just civil > liberties, civil rights advocate, not a judge. She's just a satellite > member of the ACLU that's sitting as a judge, for all intents and > purposes. How did this case get tried before her court anyway? Did the > ACLU say we want to try this case -- they had to know that they were > going to a sympathetic judge. Why in the world would you choose a > court in the Eastern District of Michigan to file suit against the > federal government and the NSA program? The only reason to do it is if > you know you've got somebody in your own club on the bench. > > Thank you, Jimmy Carter, you doofus. Glittering jewel of colossal > ignorance, worst president in my lifetime and in the modern era, an > utter disaster. More on him in just a moment. "Judge Duggan ruled in > favor of the undergraduate racial preferences, while Judge Freedman > ruled against the law school preferences." So that's who this babe is, > ladies and gentlemen, Judge Anna Diggs Taylor -- I don't know if there > were ever -- I guess there weren't congressional hearings on what went > on. Of course not. What year was it, two thousand -- of course > Republicans investigate Democrats? Hell, who's kidding who? Wouldn't > do anything like this. > > > On 8/17/06, William Bowen wrote: > > > Her reason is journalists, scholars and lawyers can't talk to al Qaeda > > > without someone listening. Boo-hoo > > > > Oh that's right, I forgot, this administration is a bunnies and flowers. > > > > yeah, Rush. > > > > What > > > > Fucking. > > > > Ever. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:213476 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
