Napolitano seems like a nice-enough guy, but I've always been put off by the pretentiousness involved in him always being addressed as 'Judge.' As the column demonstrates, he is nothing more than a former, relatively minor, state judge, and is anything but a legal scholar. This column is absolutely devastating to Napolitano's reputation. Fox can and should do better.
Agree totally. A complete and utter smackdown. I also agree that Napolitano seems like a nice enough guy, but he takes himself (and his legal opinions) waaaaay too seriously.
All agreed, although I will inform you that while the NJ judges are pathetically liberal, NJ has one of the finest judicial systems in the World. Eisenhower offered the U.S. Supreme Court to the judge who stayed in NJ instead to set up the system. It's modeled after the federal system so you have appointment instead of election. Pennsylvania by contrast is a corrupt zoo. Sadly, the courts are still asses because so liberal. But there is a tradition that half the judges are dems and half repubs, with the 1 seat majority going to whichever side is in power. But, alas, they are all liberal in any event.
Well .. actually, he is entitled to be called judge, just as former presidents are entitled to be called Mr. President, or as former Ambassadors are allowed to be called Mr. Ambassador.
I don't object to that part. I've just noticed a distinct dislike for Ashcroft and the Patriot Act.
I remember a private investigator (Mark Furman) who said of the Patriot Act that all it did was allow police units to do what private investigators had been able to do for years. While I'm not a big fan of Furman's, he went on to explain some of the things which police could now do which Mark said he has always been allowed to do - so Mark didn't think the Patriot Act was such a big deal.
It's like anything else which is put in front of you - it's up to YOU to choose if you will accept it or not. I rarely agree with the "Judge" - but that doesn't mean everything he says is an incorrect interrpretation of the law.
But .. FOX also employs Bob Beckel who hired a whore and brought her into his own home (while his wife was away). FOX also employs Robert Frost, a Texas representative who is hell bent on destroying Tom DeLay - and Frost's own aide was seen on video going into DeLay's office and STEALING a copy of DeLay's redistricting plan. I've been yelling at FOX over these 2 for months.