Posted on 12/23/2010 9:30:02 AM PST by george76
U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy, author of some of the most controversial rulings in recent Montana history, announced Wednesday that he will be taking senior status in August 2011.
"Senior status" means retirement from active service. Senior judges continue to hear cases, usually with a reduced case load.
He blocked removal of gray wolves from the endangered-species list and dismissed a lawsuit filed by Montana and other states that wanted out from under federal gun laws.
He declared a U.S. Forest Service plan for dropping retardant on fires illegal and said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service arbitrarily excluded parts of Montana and several other Western states from critical habitat for the Canada lynx.
And those decisions were just those made this year.
During his 14-year career on the federal bench, he had also blocked logging sales, curtailed use of motorized vehicles in the Gallatin National Forest and otherwise raised the hackles of critics who refer to him as an activist judge.
Senior status "is a much more relaxed position," he said. "You can travel anywhere in the United States and sit."
"I imagine he will sit on the 9th Circuit by invitation," Shanstrom said.
(Excerpt) Read more at billingsgazette.com ...
Now Max Baucus and Barack Hussein Obama can pick another activist eco nut while this fool may sit on some appeal courts ?
Hah! Just finished reading the article. The news could have been a lot better, he could have announced he was retiring to spend the next ten years looking for the Yeti in the Himalayas.
Now he’ll be able to devote a lot more of his time preparing lawsuits with his enviro nazi buddies rather than just hear them from the bench.
Yep.
No doubt Baucus will pull this same stunt with Obama.
When is he up for reelection?
When is he up for reelection?
Senior status “is a much more relaxed position,” he said. “You can travel anywhere in the United States and sit.”
I know some places in Idaho where he probably shouldn’t sit.
Wilderness rules to now be restored for public lands...Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday.
The old BLM / USFS trick of managinging our public lands ** as if ** Congress had created official new wilderness areas.
Yep, if the eco nuts keep infiltrating the BLM/USFS it won’t be too many years that they’ll be managing the public lands with gates and signs on every access saying NO ENTRY.
These are lifetime appointments. No election. No re-election.
Another reign of fascist terror ends. May he be accorded the same civility and respect he showed to American citizens.
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