My friend the Rogue Supervisor (not to be confused with Rogue Medic), sent me the link to this article.
Failed Democrat Pol Sues Critics Over Election Loss
There’s nothing quite like a politician scorned.
When voters in Ohio’s 1st Congressional District threw Democrat Steve Driehaus out of office after only one term, he did not bow out gracefully. No, he decided to get even. So he did what anyone does in today’s culture: he sued somebody.
Big deal you say, a sleazy politician loses and election and decides to sue somebody. Typical. In this case he’s suing a pro life organization for listing him as a pro abortion advocate because he voted for Obamacare, which didn’t expand anti abortion regulations. He’s suing for malicious defamation, because he says that what the organization claims is a lie and they knew it when they published it. Sounds pretty silly on it’s face, only a federal judge thought it was worth allowing a trial over. Which is kind of routine, except for this,
What is equally curious, however, is why Judge Black has allowed the case to move forward and why he did not recuse himself from it since, as Barbara Hollingsworth reported Friday in The Washington Examiner, he apparently is the former president and director of the Planned Parenthood Association of Cincinnati. As seeming conflicts of interest go this one is a real humdinger.
Black was appointed to the federal bench by none other than President Obama. Do you think that Judge Black is going to be fair and impartial in this case?
It’s this sort of thing which prompted me to post my Note To My Friend Borepatch just yesterday. Elections matter, and not just because of the obvious. Even though my post was specific to Supreme Court justices, Presidents get to appoint all federal judges. Once confirmed, those appointments are for life, unless removed by impeachment, trial, and conviction in the US Congress.
Elections matter because federal judges matter.
There are a million tactical reasons to vote for Romney. This is one of them. None of these reasons is stupid. This one isn’t.
But Romney may – may – bend the government growth curve down to a lower upwards slope. We need the curve not to go negative, but to have a sudden downward discontinuity. And then another one a few years later.
Eliminate departments. Cut the remaining ones by 10%. Tell the department heads that if they don’t improve their department’s efficiency to make up the difference and provide value for the voter’s tax money, that he’ll find new heads that will. Freeze promotions and step increases until Washington isn’t the wealthiest place in America.
Of course, he won’t do any of this. He’ll be Obama-lite. And so I rest on my argument that government will grow more slowly under divided government than under a Romney Administration. The stupid party may or may not wise up after a Romney loss, but the growth rate will be measurably less.
I fixed it for you my friend. Because that’s what a lot of Republicans said in 2008 and we know how that worked out. As a friend of mine, much older, much wiser, said the other night. “The US will NOT survive another four years of this guy.”
I don’t see why Judge Black should recuse himself. He is the *former* president and director of Planned Parenthood, so theoretically, any conflict is now not present. Seeing how Driehaus is suing the Susan B. Anthony List, I don’t necessarily see any reason to disqualify Judge Black on that basis alone. But I am not a constitutional scholar, and the author of that article raises the (very good) question of how this case was assigned to Black in the first place.
However, Judge Black was nominated by Obama, which, on it’s face, is reason enough to recuse oneself when a liberal is involved in a lawsuit.