Posted on 08/23/2006 6:21:13 AM PDT by Xth Legion
Washington, DC -- Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, the U.S. District Judge who presided over the highly controversial government wiretapping case, and decided against the President, may have had a conflict of interest that should have precluded her from judging the case.
According to research by Judicial Watch, Judge Anna Diggs Taylor serves as the Secretary and Trustee of a foundation that donated funds to the ACLU of Michigan, a Plaintiff in the case.
(Excerpt) Read more at postchronicle.com ...
oops. But, seriously, even a morally- and ethically-compromised judge could actually review the precedents, select the ones that apply and construct a one-side, but judicially-grave opinion. Only a lazy hack would simply write an op-ed and try to pass it off as some kind of 'decision'.
That's interesting...good find!
Apparently it is not a conflict to belong to the ACLU and rule in their favor. Doesn't seem that we would tolerate that behavior if public officials belonged to other organizations. Can you imagine the grief that fall on any politician or public official who was a Klan member? Well, other than Senator Byrd.
Even legal analysts who agree with her decision are baffled at her reasoning as how she came to it. This belies her already having made her decision before she even heard the case. This was a bag job from the git go. And her eye brows look they were drawn on by a mental patient with a crayon.
Didn't Alcee Hastings go to jail for this?
I think so. But he did not stay long enough.
vaudine
Heard on the news that little Miss Diggs, has ties to a communist organization and other hate organizations. Just an all-around sweetheart, doing what us Americans won't do...
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