"Nominated by William J. Clinton on May 11, 2000" My first reaction to this story was to google Joan Humphery and Clinton.
Damn!!!! Some how I figured she had to be a klintoon buffon. Hale was not of the appropriate political mind-set for slick&the judge. Hale should have apppealed to the Supreme Court for a decision on receiving his law license. I would have to presume Hale forgot that you do not threaten the life of a federal judge verbally in America. His mouth helped him receive, "unintended consequences." NSNR