Posted on 05/11/2006 1:56:03 PM PDT by Paul Ross
McLEAN, Va. -- 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.
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I don't think you understand what happened there. The Gonzales fear was that the Padilla case would go against them...so they caved in pre-emptively. For the Court to then side with the Administration when post-handling motions sua sponte by the 4th Circuit were struck down did not get to the substantive rights issues at the heart of the dispute. Fortunately. But the Administration was hardly proved "right."
Luttig's friends do him no good service putting this out. It makes him look petty and childish.
It doesn't look "petty" or "childish" to me...or almost any real conservative.
Which part? And then how so?
Luttig is on the conservative short-list of candidates for USSC, so whatever the reason, it's a loss for conservatives to see him go to the private sector.
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