So THAT's why the 9th Circuit Court supported the torture law!

[dixiegrrrrl]

In case you missed it, as I did, last week, Scott Horton of Harper's uncovered the connection between Yoo and the 9th Circuit Court's dismissal of Padilla's lawsuit.

from the article:
Hovering in the background of the Ninth Circuit’s opinion is a troubling fact:
John Yoo had a co-author when he crafted his torture memorandum, Jay Bybee.
And Bybee is now a judge on the Ninth Circuit.
Had the court handed down any other ruling, it would have been exposing one of its own. The court’s twisted reasoning and distortions of legal precedent otherwise make very little sense. Indeed, the Ninth Circuit judges seemed to be uncomfortable with torture, issuing an opinion that was comparable to a surgical excision: do what is essential to shelter Yoo and Bybee, and not an iota more.

whole article, not only good reading but probably worth clipping:
http://harpers.org/archive/2012/05/hbc-90008612

Who made Bybee a judge, I wonder????

[Woody Woodpecker]

1. Who do you think?

[sad sally]

2. In case you missed it, here's more on what a swell judge bybee is

Bybee is the federal judge that just this week (this was two weeks ago) reversed the May 2011 ruling that VA hospitals should overhaul their mental health care system - mainly stemming from the increased number of veterans who are forced to wait for years for mental health care and the increased number who end up taking their own lives.

here's what judge torture said: "There can be no doubt that securing exemplary care for our nation's veterans is a moral imperative," Judge Jay Bybee wrote for the majority. "But Congress and the president are in far better position" to decide whether and what changes need to be done."

Bybee said veterans can file individual legal claims against the VA, but that the courts had no business ordering overhauls.

Says volumes about what Schummer and Reid thought in 2003 (and now) about the rights of Americans by speaking highly of Bybee - they both voted for his appointment.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. "what Schummer and Reid thought in 2003 "

"by their acts shall ye know them"

or, in modern language:
actions speak louder than words.

[Ex-Pat Pats Fan]

3. If that wasn't a reason for recusal,

I don't know what is!

[ErinBaldwin]

5. It Would Have Been Exposing One of Its Own

Dixiegrrrrl: Thanks for this article. Your commentary makes sense and is FACT, not fiction. I'm having my own round of Ninth Circuit torture of my own. I'm a journalist and back in 2009 I started writing about loan modification/foreclosure fraud in CA. Seems as I was spot on because some of the major culprits (State Bar of CA and CA Dept. of Real Estate, etc.) have retaliated against me ever since beginning with two permanent injunctions restraining my speech.

I filed a Section 1983 civil rights complaint in Ninth Circuit District Court (CA Central) and received the ol' run around. I appealed to the 9th Circuit and more run around. Now my case is before the US Supreme Court as I was a target of over 40 civil and criminal acts of First Amendment retaliatory prosecution. The Ninth Circuit ruled that the termination of my First Amendments rights through two politically-motivated injunctions did not warrant their intervention. So, we'll see if it warrants the intervention of the US Supreme Court.

Anyway, I just wanted to chime in about the Ninth Circuit and say you are spot on about it. For more information about my case, if you're interested, you can go to http://www.scribd.com/doc/88777525/FIRST-AMENDMENT-RETALIATORY-PROSECUTION

Keep on telling it like it is -- it's very valuable information.

Erin Baldwin
[e-mail]

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. congrats on you carrying the good fight as far as possible.

I hope you have lots of support, moral and financial.

The foreclosure issue is something that I and few others here have been following for the past few years.
Sadly, everytime it looks as if we are going win on any issue, more and more corruption is revealed.
Thank god for Scribd...I have been able to find and copy lots of cases and docs
and to upload a few.
Pls let us know how you are progressing,
The Economy group here is a very good place to post updates.

[RobertEarl]

7. Welcome to DU, Erin

I am a newbie here and when I read posts from patriots like you it makes me want to stick around.

Courts are the last bastion against tyranny. This court has failed in the simplest task: Stopping Torture. So it means they support tyranny.

It must not be allowed to stand. How do the people go about impeaching Bybee?

[Xedniw]

13. Loan modification and foreclosure fraud? You really went into the lion's den.

Are you taking donations?

[Uncle Joe]

8. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, dixiegrrrrl.

[wexit]

9. Spam deleted by OKNancy (MIR Team)

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. NB: the link above sets off some antivirus software

and the troll who posted it has already been PPRed. It apparently goes to a RW libertarian site.

[OKNancy]

12. yup

quoting one of the MIRT members:

Copy and paste of warning
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Attack pages try to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to attack others, or damage your system.Some attack pages intentionally distribute harmful software, but many are compromised without the knowledge or permission of their owners.

[TBF]

10. GWB of course -

appointed in 2003

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Bybee