This bizarre tactic by the judge suggests that his motives go beyond bias.
This is not a matter of law, so it cannot be judged as such. This is Politics. The law will be bent to achieve the desired end. This is where ‘unprecedented ‘ and ‘unheard of’ and ‘extraordinary’ come in.
Why did the appeals court not just end it? Because they are trying mightily to give Sullivan an out, however idiotic.
They can do this because they have lost all fear of we the people.
Why did the appeals court not just end it? Because they are trying mightily to give Sullivan an out, however idiotic.
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In that sense the appeals court is complicit in enabling clearly politically driven behavior. Why allow two weeks for a response when the matter should have been swiftly dealt with and the judge put in his place? Such decisive action would have the salubrious effect of sending a message to other would be rogue judges and discouraging such behavior instead of tolerating it.
At first I thought the appeals court was giving Sullivan a way to gracefully extricate himself from a situation of his own making, but there is no legitimate reason to extend this idiotic judicial mess out like this other than to semi-legitimize it.
This is a disgraceful episode in American justice, or what’s left of it.