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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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too bad
i would have loved to see this guy on the Supreme Court
Indeed, didn't the reversal of approach shortstop a potentially disastrous ruling that might have freed ALL those being held? Sounds to me like sour grapes by the judge and he couldn't fathom the "big picture." Was he more interested in his legacy than helping the administration nagivate the legal minefields that prevent advancement in the WOT?
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So now Luttig is a hater too?
Amen.
It's total bull.
This article is in direct conflict with the praise Luttig offered Bush, in extensive fashion, for Bush in his resignation comments.
Why trust an article rather than the judge's words themselves?
Methinks people are in a mode of hearing what they want to hear, and then imagining whatever is missing that they wanted to hear but didn't.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137836001716
Here's a truthful account of Luttig's resignation- from Luttig.
Excellent remarks and so true.
Pure and total BS from a typical garbage partisan hit piece from the Bush haters.
So true MNJ!
I am to believe that a true conservative like Luttig would simply give up his life's cause and leave for the private sector because he is upset? Give me a break. All of these trolls who sit and wait for any post that is even remotely negative towards Bush make me sick. GO BACK TO DU.
snicker.....
You must be one who is easily swayed.
re post #14... thanks for the morning laugh.
I expect the good judge regined to make the big bucks, If he did I can't blame him for that. I doubt he resigned over this particular case. If and its a big if, these facts are correct then thank God this guy never got on the Court A little too much of a ego if you ask me.
Also, I think COnservatives can have objectives to the Presidents powers he wants. I have had the theory for a while that Bush asks gfor the moon so he can get something reasonable in the end. I expect that he didnt resign over that.
He's self-absorbed.
He doesn't get to decide what decisions the executive branch gets to make, when faced with two legal alternatives.
I hope he makes lots of money and stays out of our judicial system.
Very short-sighted of Luttig. I'm thinking he's reading the polls, believes a democrat will win in 08, and what the heck, he'll never make it to the Supremes anyway. He's going for the bucks after 15 or so years on the 4th Circuit, ready to cash in. And I don't fault him.
But no way am I ready to jump on Bush/Gonzales for honking big decisions they must make. We don't know what's behind their latest on Padillo, but I'm sure the implications range far beyond what happens to him. Far beyond Luttig as well. I thank God every day this president does not base decisions on what's popular with the people, or with judges.
Although you are correct, you point seems to damn Bush with faint praise. When all you've really got going for you is that you're not quite as bad as the alternitive, that doesn't say much. (not that I don't think Bush has other things going for him, the "he's not as bad as a dem would be" is not much of a defense or reason to vote for any political candidate.)
Doncha know you don't have to SAY it; they just assume that's what you think if you don't agree with them.
It's the Money. It all about the MONEY. NOTHING else. Not some great deep hidden statement of principal that validate the knee jerk feverish Bush hate of the Perpetual Whiners. It's about how much MONEY Luttig will now be making
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