I wasn't sure either .. but I am so glad he was able to do something .. what is happening to the poor girl is wrong ..
Please don't think I am being disparaging of Jeb Bush. But I do know what a political adviser would tell Jeb. For every person that calls or emails or sends a letter there are 150 people who feel the same way, but don't call, mail or email.
If you take 27,000 emails and multiply it by 150 you find that 4,050,000 people think Jeb should do something. No politician I have ever known would ignore that. I doubt that Jeb wanted to ignore it. But if he did want to do something he wanted to do it with the greatest chance of success.
Jeb went to some effort to point out the fact he got 27,000 emails. Judges have to be elected too. And if they want to remain a judge they will take these 4 million people seriously. Jeb waited until talk radio was at his throat and the public arroused and then put the JUDGE on the hot seat with the burner turned up to high. I can tell you it burns that Judges very tender a$$ a lot.
The point that will not be missed by the judge is that if he kills this woman, he will never be appointed to a higher court. He will never be elected to a higher or even the same court. He won't even be invited to major events. The power strcuture will see the Jdge as a third rail legal killer. Legal killers don't get invited to homes or public event. The word political pariah comes to mind.
It will in effect cost the judge all his stature and a future if he rules the wrong way.
This move by Jeb Bush late in the game with huge public backing is hardball politics at its hardest. If I were Bush's political consultant it would have been my advise to handle it exactly this way. But I doubt that it took a political adviser thinking about the Governor to formulate this plan. The most likely scenario is the Governor asked everyone on his staff to tell him how to save this womans life?" He took the plan with the highest chance of success and he did it.
To kill this woman the judge will have to commit judicial suicide. That is the sentence Jeb just delivered on him. There is on ticked off judge tonight of that you can be sure.