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Laura Blackburne removed from bench
Times Ledger ^
| 6/14/06
| Howard Koplowitz
Posted on 06/15/2006 7:00:15 AM PDT by TET1968
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We are on a roll.
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posted on
06/15/2006 7:00:16 AM PDT
by
TET1968
To: TET1968
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posted on
06/15/2006 7:02:12 AM PDT
by
NonLinear
(He's dead, Jim)
To: TET1968; xsmommy
![](http://www.queenspress.com/weekly/122305/newspg7a.jpg)
Her Dishonor.
To: TET1968
Two judges disagreed that Blackburne, who is black, should have been removed.
"No good reason exists to remove from the bench an outstanding jurist who has made one error in judgment," said Judge George Bundy Smith, who was in the minority and is the only black justice on the Court of Appeals. "While it is true that judges should set high standards, it is also true that judges are human and may err. An error in judgment by this judge... should not lead to removal."
Yes, Mr. Smith, looks like the Man is trying to stick it to you again. Too bad you're not a JUDGE or anything, so you could practice some hardcore judicial activism and fiat out laws you don't like.
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posted on
06/15/2006 7:03:04 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
To: TET1968
Our heavenly father is showering us with his blessings! Thank you, Lord.
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posted on
06/15/2006 7:04:05 AM PDT
by
demkicker
(democrats and terrorists are intimate bedfellows)
To: NonLinear
Congresswomen Cynthia McKinney next?
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posted on
06/15/2006 7:04:28 AM PDT
by
TET1968
(SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
To: Xenalyte
Do not expect Justice Laura Blackburne to subscribe to Reader's Digest anytime soon.
In its upcoming February edition, the magazine named the controversial Queens judge one of the nation's three worst jurists, awarding her the dubious distinction known as the Broken Gavel Award. Blackburne, who ordered a participant in a drug treatment program out of her court through a side door in June because she did not want him arrested by a waiting detective, joined a justice from Ohio and one from Kentucky on the list.
"It's a rare day in America when a sitting judge helps a criminal suspected of a violent crime flee a courtroom to elude a detective waiting to arrest him," the magazine staffers wrote in the article. A clerk at Blackburne's chambers said the judge had no comment on the ranking.
Source: http://gothamgazette.com/community/28/news/1144
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posted on
06/15/2006 7:05:21 AM PDT
by
NonLinear
(He's dead, Jim)
To: TET1968
Blackburne, a Jamaica resident...From the same little town that gave us Sheila Jackson Lee.
To: TET1968
Na na na na...na na na na...hey hey hey goodbye! :-}
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posted on
06/15/2006 7:06:25 AM PDT
by
Arpege92
(If you don't stand behind our troops...please feel free to stand in front of them!)
To: Arpege92
Representative William Jefferson next ?
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posted on
06/15/2006 7:07:46 AM PDT
by
TET1968
(SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
To: JoeSixPack1
sheila jackson lee is from new york?
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posted on
06/15/2006 7:12:19 AM PDT
by
rudabaga
To: TET1968
Obstructing Justice, give her jail time.
Martha had to, why not Laura?
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posted on
06/15/2006 7:13:08 AM PDT
by
SR 50
(Larry)
To: rudabaga
Yep.. Jamaica High School graduate. Jamaica, Queens, NYC
To: SR 50
Clinton appointed chairman and chief executive officer of Fannie Mae, Franklin D. Raines, Next ?
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posted on
06/15/2006 7:14:31 AM PDT
by
TET1968
(SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
To: SR 50
I agree.
If you or I helped a fugitive escape we'd be charged with aiding and abetting.
I say charge her with the same and throw her in jail. Perhaps such an example will serve to discourage other "judges" from taking similar unlawful actions in the future. There's NO acceptable reason why she should be treated any differently than any of us "citizens".
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posted on
06/15/2006 7:16:54 AM PDT
by
slykens
To: TET1968
This woman should have been removed long before now. She is a real danger to all, and has been for years.
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posted on
06/15/2006 7:19:16 AM PDT
by
geezerwheezer
(get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
To: TET1968
She was removed only because of white racism... /sarc>
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posted on
06/15/2006 7:30:17 AM PDT
by
Al Gator
(Refusing to "stoop to your enemy's level", gets you cut off at the knees.)
To: JoeSixPack1
Same as Michael Savage et moi
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posted on
06/15/2006 7:31:57 AM PDT
by
dennisw
To: TET1968
icing on the cake would be if her pension was removed.
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posted on
06/15/2006 7:34:20 AM PDT
by
isom35
To: isom35
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posted on
06/15/2006 7:37:29 AM PDT
by
TET1968
(SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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