AUDIENCE GASPS AS JUDGE LIKENS ELECTION OF BUSH TO RISE OF IL DUCE

The New York Sun ^ | Jun 21, 2004 | JOSH GERSTEIN

[BenLurkin]

Pathetic.

[Piquaboy]

Typical action for a Bush Hater.

[2banana]

Lawyers are nervous - Bush must be doing something right...

[Pearls Before Swine]

In 1994, President Clinton appointed the law professor to the federal appeals court...

But of course. One of the grave weaknesses in our system is its susceptibility to politicization of the courts. Clinton (and FDR before him, by threatening to pack the court by expanding the number of judges) were two of the very worst in this regard. The judicial legacy that a corrupt president (in the sense of selecting judges on highly partisan political grounds) causes lives on for a long, long time.

[evad]

Outrageously stupid people are allowed in this country to say outrageously stupid things.

The real question is..
How Do They Become Judges??

[Sister_T]

Why is this clown a judge? So it was perfectly fine for the Florida Supreme Court to CHANGE THE LAW in the middle of an election but wrong for SCOTUS to pimp-smack them down, in favor of the rule of law?

Oh, no! Politics has nothing to do with his comments </sarcasm!>

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Another jurist who thinks he's a legislator.

[MplsSteve]

Yes, he IS suggesting Pres Bush is Hitleresque.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have made the analogy.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Amazing that a federal judge cannot understand exactly what the Supreme Court did. They did not choose the winner- the voters of Florida did.

[evad]

>>“I absolutely obviously agree with what Judge Calabresi was trying to get at,” said a former chief of staff to Vice President Gore.. <<

Now there's a surprise ;-)

[Clara Lou]

Outrageous. And what is so sad, the Democrats are willing to go along with the whine that the judiciary selected Bush, that the electoral system was thwarted. This has to be an all-time low in American politics.

[EggsAckley]

"First, kill the lawyers." Shakespeare

[kenth]

“I absolutely obviously agree with what Judge Calabresi was trying to get at,” said a former chief of staff to Vice President Gore, Ronald Klain.

Of course he does, he's not at the trough anymore because of the outcome.

[alrea]

The takeover of the American Legal System by Lawyers and Judges sympatheic to the highly socialistic Democratic Party is similar to the bureaucratic, Marxist takeovers of economies throughout the 1900's.

[raisincane]

Judge Calabresi was born in Milan. His family fled Mussolini in 1939 and settled in America. In 1994, President Clinton appointed the law professor to the federal appeals court that hears cases from the states of New York, Connecticut, and Vermont.


I knew he was a Klintoon appointee before getting to this paragraph. Another radical &%#@*! Klintoon judge!

[G.Mason]

"The real question is.. How Do They Become Judges??"

In Essex County, New Jersey, circa 1969, I worked for a judge as a Court Attendant.

This judge admitted that he got the appointment because he and his wife gave $20,000 to the Essex County Democrat Party.

Quite simply, that, or methods close to that, are how every judge is appointed, or allowed to run for election. (when electing is the method of selection)

[Rebelbase]

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		Guido Calabresi Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law Contact Info Yale Law School P.O. Box 208215 New Haven, CT 06520 guido.calabresi@yale.edu

Subjects	Torts; tragic choices; legal process.
Education	B.S., Yale, 1953, LL.B., 1958; B.A., Cambridge, 1955; M.A., Oxford, 1959; M.A.(Hon.), Yale, 1962.
Professional Positions	Note Ed., Yale L.J. Admitted to bar: CT, 1958. Rhodes Scholar, Oxford, 1953-55. Law Clerk, Justice Hugo L. Black, U.S. Supreme Ct., 1958-59. Asst. Prof., Yale, 1959-61; Assoc. Prof., 1961-62; Prof. 1962-70; John Thomas Smith Prof., 1970-78; Sterling Prof. 1978-96; Dean, 1985-94; Sterling Prof. Emeritus and Professorial Lecturer in Law since 1996. Judge, U.S. Ct. of App., 2nd Cir., since 1994. Member, Am. Philosophical Society. Fellow, Am. Academy of Arts and Sciences. Corresponding Fellow, British Academy. Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
Honors and Awards	Over thirty-five honorary degrees (LL.D., Dr. Hum. Litt., D.Phil., Dott. Jur., Dr. S.D., and Dott. Sci. Pol.).
Selected Publications	The Cost of Accidents: A Legal and Economic Analysis, 1970; Tragic Choices (with P. Bobbitt), 1978; A Common Law for the Age of Statutes, 1982; Ideals, Beliefs, Attitudes and the Law, 1985.

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