Posted on 05/11/2006 8:59:45 AM PDT by mathprof
After Fight in Terrorism Case, Conservative Star Gives Up Court Seat for Boeing Job.
On Nov. 22, U.S. Circuit Judge J. Michael Luttig was at work in his chambers here when he received a telephone call telling him to switch on the television. There, he saw Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announce that the government would file charges against Jose Padilla in a federal court -- treating the accused terrorist like a normal criminal suspect.
The judge was stunned. Two months earlier, he had written a landmark opinion saying the government could hold Mr. Padilla without charge in a military brig. (Read the opinion.1) The decision validated President Bush's claim that he could set aside Mr. Padilla's constitutional rights in the name of national security. The judge assumed the government had a compelling reason to consider the suspect an extraordinary threat. Now Mr. Gonzales wanted the courts to forget the whole case.
It didn't take long for the judge's anger to burst out into the open. The next month he wrote that moves such as the attorney general's cast doubt on the Bush administration's "credibility before the courts." Judge Luttig tried to block Mr. Padilla's transfer to civilian custody from the brig. (Read the opinion.2) The administration's top litigator fired back that the judge "defies both law and logic."
The clash, which underscores the increasing skepticism among even some conservative jurists toward the Bush administration's sweeping theories of executive power, culminated yesterday in Judge Luttig's resignation. The 51-year-old judge, once considered a likely Bush nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, stepped down from his lifetime seat on the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to start a new career in Chicago as general counsel for Boeing Co.
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How do you know I don't agree with Luttig?
I don't agree with locking up an American citizen for several years without any judicial proceeding, whether military or civilian.
what prevented him from getting a timely military tribunal - was the interference of the courts in the matter. that's why he was locked up for several years. what do you suggest - that he should have been released on bail?
I'm not suprised. He has little chance at getting on the SCOTUS at this point, and has spent 15 years as a Judge.
Simple career change.
You are welcome to resume at any time but there is nothing here for me to reflect upon.
My political principle is to protect this nation above all else. Anything else is compromisable when such a compromise will strengthen that protection. Any weakening of the GOP reduces it.
Right now the President and the GOP are under attack by those forces which have no good intentions for this nation and those too blind to see this or understand what is involved have little chance of doing any good for the American people by joining the Treason Media and the Party of Treason in weakening the GOP.
Most of your pretended principles are nothing but misunderstandings, ignorance or misdirected fanaticism. There is nothing easier to claim than purer principles and rarely are those claims justified.
If you can't follow directions, I'm not sure what to do with you. And I never asked you for your resume. Not sure why things get stranger with you every post, but they do.
It is hard to do anything with mule headed people like me. My mom says I was so stubbord that when a toddler I once got mad about something and held my breath until I passed out.
Your dream ticket for 08 is pretty funny.
He must have been really stupid to stay in the gov't so long knowing he could make all that money outside the public sector.
LOL, I was waiting for it. Now the Wall Street Journal is printing a 'partisan hit piece'. The Wall Street Journal. Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? Tell me, as the list of papers that consistently present this administration in a good light gets smaller and smaller what will be left to read?
Like this?
GretchenM
Since Apr 18, 2004
He might have had an opinion before becoming a Freeper.
Welcome to the wordplay, at the level somewhat different from "hugh" and "series". It sounds similar enough to the standard "fallacious", and is spelled close enough for a possible typo, but at the same time it has its own meaning, for it correctly indicates the proper use and true quality of the argument or thinking in question.
Did the judge say this was the reason he quit? I'd suspect it was the money.
Sorry, not following the reason for your post.
You may also note at the top of my home page it says:
"Member/FR addict since 1998; changed my screen name."
Oooh. That Bush is a bad, bad person.
"They have made themselves completely politically irrelevant with their perpetual whining and bitching."
Wanna bet? Elections can rise or fall depending on which way that whining base reacts. Bush Sr. found that out. Remember, no new taxes? You are politically naive.
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