A Judge Who Deserves To Be Benched (Burt Prelutsky Profiles Uber Liberal Stephen Reinhardt Alert)

Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 09/27/06 | Burt Prelutsky

[goldstategop]

Whenever I hear my fellow conservatives talk about sitting out the election in November, I want to grab them and shake them until their teeth rattle. Anything that puts Democrats even an inch closer to appointing federal judges should be more than enough reason to get every right-winger off the couch and down to his polling place.

In case you think I'm engaging in election year hyperbole, consider Judge Stephen Roy Reinhardt. He has been the mainstay of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit for the past quarter of a century, ever since Jimmy Carter foisted him off on us.

What sort of disaster has Judge Reinhardt been? For openers, it was his court that first got our attention when it decided that "under God" had no place in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Not a court to rest on its laurels, the 9th Circuit recently garnered media attention with its rulings in a couple of murder cases. In the first, Reinhardt and his colleagues decided that a convicted killer was entitled to a new trial because the relatives of his victim had worn small buttons with their loved one's picture to court. The 9th Circuit decided this had undue influence on the jurors, although the trial judge had ruled otherwise, and the relatives, in any case, had only worn the buttons for the first two days of the trial.

In the other case, the defendant had murdered a young woman by bashing in her head with a dumbbell. No, an actual dumbbell; not Judge Reinhardt. In this instance, a three judge panel decided 2-1, Reinhardt providing the swing vote, that when the jurors back in 1982 sentenced the killer to die, they might not have taken into account "the defendant's potential for a positive adjustment to life in prison"!

Scary, isn't it?

But I'm only getting started. Judge Reinhardt is also the fellow who said, "I don't believe the Constitution says that individuals have a right to bear arms." Judge Reinhardt, let me introduce you to the Second Amendment.

There's more. When someone suggested that the 9th Circuit was the most liberal court in the country, he replied with a straight face: "When people say that, what they mean is that this court, unlike most of the circuit courts, isn't totally dominated by a group of conservative judges who have a view of the Constitution that is, to put it mildly, rather narrow and tends to resemble the view of the federal courts before the Age Of Enlightenment." I guess he means way back in the old days when the Second Amendment was still part of the Constitution.

Not knowing the judge personally, I don't know if he drinks or is simply a visitor from a very strange planet, but in what was even for him a particularly loony moment, he actually said, "When President Clinton was appointing judges, he did not appoint liberals to the Supreme Court. He appointed people that would be acceptable to the Republicans in the Senate, and that's why he got some of his appointees nominated. But anyone who seemed to be slightly liberal would not even get a hearing." Judge Reinhardt, let me introduce you to Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Sometimes those on the Left accuse those of us on the Right of putting words in their mouth. But the truth is we don't need to. Besides, even if we tried, we wouldn't succeed because they usually have one or more of their feet jammed in there, and there's simply not enough room!

[goldstategop]

Burt Prelutsky is right - conservatives need to wake up! We can't simply let the Democrats take over Congress. Or we'll face uber-liberal federal judges in our future, like the Nine Circus' Stephen Reinhardt.

If you think his record of judicial activism looks detestable, that's restrained compared with whom the Democrats would like to put on the bench. Every election has high stakes. Now its no exaggeration in the 2006 mid-terms. Our country's future is literally on the line. If the GOP loses in November, Reinhardt will be the least of conservatives' problems.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[blueyon]

I guess it's time to remind every Republican to get out and vote...I know I am.

[DustyMoment]

Even though I am frequently less than thrilled with the majority of candidates offered by the right, nonetheless, I will go out and vote. Control of a runaway and activist court system is essential if we are going to restore anything resembling sanity to our judicial system. IMO, there are too many "Judge Reinhardts" on the bench.

[arthurus]

Just what sort of judges is a Giuliani likely to appoint? Pro homosexual. Anti gun. Pro abortion. He is a Liberal Democrat who has better ideas about how to deal with crime in New York.

[af_vet_1981]

Whenever I hear my fellow conservatives talk about sitting out the election in November, I want to grab them and shake them until their teeth rattle. Anything that puts Democrats even an inch closer to appointing federal judges should be more than enough reason to get every right-winger off the couch and down to his polling place.

Judges are the key for the next generation, and the only reason President Bush saw any of his conservative judges appointed was a Republican Congress, with very little support from Democrats.

[TNCMAXQ]

So this scumbag judge was appointed by Carter. No surprise. Clinton also appointed nothing but far left, criminal coddling judges. I'll remember this the next time I hear some moron saying carter is such a good man who cares about human rights, and all that other bull.

[steamroller]

Reinhardt is married to Ramona Ripston(her 5th,his 3rd-very stable people)the head of the ACLU for southern California.He sits on cases brought by his wife's organization-no conflict of interest,right?Reinhardt is the enemy within,no doubt and a preponderance of judges like him will drag this country into civil war-just think of a judicial-inspired mass seizure of firearms-it would all go up for grabs then-do we need people like this dictating to us?Thankfully he is almost always reversed by the Supreme Court.If Bush didn't do much else right,he made some damn good appointments to the Supreme Court.Hopefully Ginsburg and Stevens will shuffle off to Buffalo while Bush still has time for new appointments.

[Smartass]

Judge Stephen Reinhardt, the rotten ultra liberal scoundrel's that he is, along with the rest of the dinosaurs on that court goes way beyond anything written. He, along with the other 27 9th circus clowns should be impeached for fraud. Yes FRAUD. They are suppose to be what are called according to the Constitution, Article III judges, but in fact do nothing of the kind. Visit the 9th Circuit web page 9th Cir., then click on Memorandum. That page will speak volumes of why this court should be (impeached) fired and broken up.


The disgraceful Supreme Ct. is no better.

 

[bitt]

Ramona Ripston(her 5th,his 3rd-very stable people)the head of the ACLU for southern California.He sits on cases brought by his wife's organization-no conflict of interest,right?

Geez, even I can see an obvious conflict! And who should be taking this guy to task for such obvious conflicts?

[steamroller]

nobody will do anything to him-he'll keep getting(hopefully)reversed and i guess we'll be stuck with him until he retires or dies-i live in the 1st Circuit where the judges are not that insane-i know there is a procedure to impeach federal judges,but it has been used virtually only in cases of corruption such as acepting a bribe-reinhardt does his evil because he enjoys it-he wants to wreck this country

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!