Thursday, August 05, 2010

We're the Only Ones Ejected from the Game Enough

A Nebraska judge lost his seat on the bench for using his position to help his daughter's softball team. [More]
Kind'a makes you wonder what we'd find if we looked at his career stats, doesn't it?

[Via Carl S]

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

You would get a kick out of this: August, 1960 issue of Guns magazine has picture of New York police recruits receiving firearm training and the caption starts out, "City police recruits are taught they are only ones who should have pistols..."

http://www.gunsmagazine.com/1960issue.html

Dann in Ohio

David Codrea said...

Actually, that's the July 1960 issue that has that--I wrote about it here.

But the August issue is now out and I intend to write about it, too, as I do every month when these come out.

Defender said...

We now have a Supreme Court Justice who's done a lot worse. Kagan has been confirmed.
Not gonna let it bother me. Live free anyway.

Jerri Lynn Ward said...

I think that Kagan is horrible. That said, I have to say something. Sometimes Republican federal judges are just as horrible. Scalia, for instance, has been bad on religious freedom cases. A Republican appointee helped kill Terri Schiavo. Herb Titus, Judge Roy Moore's attorney in the 10 commandments case told me that Republican federal judges are often worse then Democrat appointees in religious freedom cases.

The thing is, we need to get Congress to strip jurisdiction from the federal judiciary on many issues. Then we can stop having spasms over selection of Supreme Court Justices.

Pat H. said...

Yes, David, that judge's record needs a thorough airing out, in fact I'd say the majority of judges need a thorough vetting by we the people.

As for the Schiavo comment, the parents of that unfortunate woman were attempting to overturn at least ten and perhaps as many as twenty centuries of English common law. The case finally went as it should have, according to our American common law.