[Bahbah]

In a rare move

Wow, I'll say it's rare. Judges are just as much of a tribe as "journalists."

[stinkerpot65]

Looks like he ate all the Indians.

[sinkspur]

Lamberth was the only judge who gave any credibility to the endless filings of one Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch, against the Clinton White House.

I always thought he was nutty, and this Panel certifies him. Most of what he brought were harrassment suits, much as his protege, Tom Fitton, is doing with the Bush White House.

[Dog Gone]

a conservative Reagan appointee from Texas.

Yeah, well I once voted for Jimmy Carter. People DO change.

[Popocatapetl]

I'm surprised Lambeth kept his cool as long as he did. The Interior Department has just treated the whole case with utter contempt and arrogance from day 1. Concealing records, destroying records, perjury, endless delays, and generally just blowing off their responsibilities. You can't make us do anything we don't want to.

I have never heard of a federal judge who swallowed so much abuse without going postal. Several of those Interior attorneys would have been serving years in jail if I had been on that bench. For the last seven years I would have been issuing bench warrants when any of those bureaucrats tried to pull my chain or blow me off.

Let's see how responsive an undersecretary can get when federal marshals haul him to court in handcuffs to testify under oath.

[You Dirty Rats]

Circuit Judge Janice Rogers Brown

I love reading that!

[mo]

IMHO, her Heinousness Hillary finally got some of her own back...http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/hillary_rodham_clinton/index.html?query=LAMBERTH,%20ROYCE%20C&field=per&match=exact

[maine-iac7]

Led by Blackfeet Indian Elouise Cobell, the plaintiffs claim the government has mismanaged oil, gas, timber and other royalties from their lands since 1887 costing them tens of billions of dollars.

Regardless of all else - anyone who has researched and read documents and evidence on how the gov't continues to skim all but pennies on the dollar from the royalties due the Indian landowners -know what a disgrace it is.

The Indians 'own' their land in name only = they have no say in who 'leases' it for what reasons and, even then, they are not allowed to deal directly with the leasee - because the gov't, still operating under 100+ year old rulings, deem the Indians incapable of handling their own affairs.

The American Indian: the unseen minority

[MACVSOG68]

Finally! Lamberth has been the chief enabler of one of the all time great scams in lawyerdom. These Indian allottees have, with the help of Lamberth, managed to turn a $67 audit finding into a $178 Billion claim. They are hoping to settle for around $30 billion, without one single shred of evidence to support them. And the tribal claims are not far behind.

[Waco]

All the $$$$$$ will be shifted to the Soc. Sec "Fund" so they can give benefits to illegal liens. Thought everyone knew that.

[isom35]

"from the 10-year-old Indian trust case" so do they get a new judge and start all over?