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To: justshutupandtakeit
Are you joking? How about you read three of the four paragraphs from the excerpt

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.

91 posted on 05/11/2006 2:18:32 PM PDT by Vision (Newt/Pence '08)
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To: Vision

None of that says anything about a "headache". Allegations from dubious sources about his motivation and his unhappiness are only that.

Where does a headache come into the picture? He decides to resign and does so. A "headache" would mean there was some problem with resigning or it could not be done easily or some such thing.


92 posted on 05/11/2006 2:21:34 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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