Quelle surprise! He’s a BillyBob appointee.
Note, he’s also not a sitting judge anymore he retired in 2011. They found a judge that was of similar mind to theirs to sign an order releasing Cohen. Judge’s have lifetime appointments, even in retirement. His orders are still enforceable. They likely could not get a currently SITTING judge to sign, so they went to a retired progressive judge who is a doddering fool who was willing to sign on their petition, not before a hearing where both sides argue the reasoning. As was mentioned above, his violation was NOT that he was writing a book but that he violated the conditions by breaking house arrest by eating at a restaurant. The judge accepted their political argument which was NOT the reason for his arrest and parole violation, and, Vloiá, out.