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December 23, 2005
'Bitch-slapping' U.S. President Bush on National Security Issues
In commenting on Joseph Sullum's December 22, 2005 Reason Online article headlined "No Fury Like a Court Scorned, " University of Chicago Assistant Political Science Professor Daniel W. Drezner said "...just about every branch or bureaucracy of government is bitch-slapping George W. Bush this month on national security issues." It was in response the following from Sullum:Coming from what is generally considered the most government-friendly federal appeals court, yesterday's decision by the 4th Circuit denying the Bush administration's request to transfer accused would-be terrorist Jose Padilla from military to civilian custody is the judicial equivalent of a bitch slap.
It good to see Federal Judge J. Michael Luttig show judicial balls by rejecting Mr. Bush's attempt stay out of the U.S. Supreme Court on the Padilla case. Here's his 14-page opinion.
Luttig was appointed to the Fourth Circuit bench by George Herbert Walker Bush, the current U.S. president's father.
Note: This item is cross posted at The Opinion Gazette.
Posted by Munir Umrani at December 23, 2005 09:08 PM
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