Hey, GOP! Bet you wish you had a little of that JUDICIAL ACTIVISM, huh?

[Plaid Adder]

Oh, sure, you hate "activist judges" when they rule in our favor. Now you're crying because the judges you appointed are actually doing what you say you appointed them to do. Sucks to be you, I guess.

Guess you'll have to keep falling back on that activist Congress of yours,

The Plaid Adder

[Guckert]

1. Rule of Law party, My Ass!!! only the laws they agree with.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Actually, they're bitching the judges are being activist anyway.

You see, "activist judges" is just code for "we're pissed we pass unconstitutional laws and commit crimes and the judges call us out on it." So even when they use the black and white letter of the law, with pretty much no interpretation necessary, they're still being "activist". Total bullshit.

[TahitiNut]

3. It's interesting that the dissenting 11th Circuit Judge is a Clinton ...

... appointee. The other two are earlier Bush41 and Clinton appointees. Wilson dissented in the per curiam opinion of Carnes and Hull.

It's also interesting that Wilson is a Notre Dame undergraduate and law school graduate. Is it at all possible that Wilson is Roman Catholic and is permitting his religious beliefs to "inform' his judicial opinion? (A reading of the opinion doesn't give me warm confidence in Wilson's reasoning ability.)


Judge Charles R. Wilson was appointed to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on July 30, 1999 by President W. J. Clinton.

Education:
University of Notre Dame, B.A., 1976
University of Notre Dame, J.D., 1979
Previous Employment:
Law clerk, Hon. Joseph W. Hatchett, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1979-1980
Assistant county attorney, Hillsborough County, FL, 1980-1981
Private practice, Tampa, FL, 1981-1986
State county judge, Hillsborough County, FL, 1986-1990
U.S. Magistrate, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, 1990-1994
U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, 1994-1999

Judge Ed Carnes was appointed to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on September 10, 1992 by President George H. W. Bush.

Education:
University of Alabama, B.S., 1972;
Graduated Cum Laude from Harvard Law School, J.D., 1975.
Previous Employment:
Alabama Attorney Generals Office, 1975-1992.
Professional Organizations:
Federal Judges Association; Chairman, Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules, 2001-present; Member, Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules, 1997-present

Judge Frank M. Hull was appointed to the 11th Circuit on October 3, 1997 President W. J. Clinton.

Education:
University of Reading, 1968-1969;
Randolph-Macon Woman's College, B.A., 1966-1968, 1969-1970;
Emory University School of Law, J.D., (cum laude), 1973, Order of the Coif and Notes and Comments Editor on the law review.
Previous Employment:
Law Clerk to the Honorable Elbert P. Tuttle, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1973-1974; associate, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, 1974-1980; partner Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, 1980-1984; Judge, State Court of Fulton County, GA, 1984-1990; Judge, Superior Court of Fulton County, GA, 1990-1994; U.S. District Judge, Northern District of Georgia, 1994-1997.
Committee Appointments/Professional Organizations:
Member, Codes of Conduct Commmittee for U.S. Judicial Conference, 2002-present; Federal Judges Association; American Judicature Society; Fellow, American Bar Foundation; Fellow, Georgia Bar Foundation; Honorary Fellow, American College of Construction Lawyers; Georgia Women's Forum; Altar Guild, Cathedral of St. Philip Episcipal Church; Leadership Atlanta, 1987-present.