“The Court trusts that this is a reflection of these eminent academics’ willingness in the future to step to the plate and provide like assistance in cases involving any of the numerous litigants, both in this Court and throughout the courts of our nation, who lack the financial means to fully and properly articulate the merits of their legal positions even in instances where failure to do so could result in monetary penalties, incarceration, or worse. The Court will certainly not hesitate to call for such assistance from these luminaries, as necessary in the interests of justice and equity, whenever similar questions arise in the cases that come before it.”
Wow. So because he is not poor he is not entitled to a friend of the court brief? Constitutional scholars can only chime in for poor defendants and are chided for weighing in on Libby? What kind of judge is this?
It appears he’s a class warrior—and he did himself no good with this remark. Foolish .
He’s an a$$hole.