Under the Radar
Here are excerpts of the AP’s version of a recent legal ruling which came in below the radars of the frothing-at-the-mouth brigades:
A former FBI translator failed Monday to persuade the Supreme Court to revive her lawsuit alleging she was fired for reporting possible wrongdoing by other linguists involved in counterterrorism investigations.
The high court also rebuffed a request by . . . media groups to rule on whether an appellate court improperly held arguments in the case in secret without being asked to do so by either side.
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[The Plaintiff’s] lawyers argued the government should not be allowed to use the ’state secrets privilege’ to silence [alleged] whistleblowers . . . .
U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton dismissed . . . [the] lawsuit in 2004 after then-Attorney General John Ashcroft invoked the ’state secrets privilege’ . . .
News organizations wanted the court to clarify when and how appellate arguments over civil lawsuits can be closed to the public.
I like those types of rulings.
They cause the lunatic left to wig out. And they cause the black helicopter-obsessed nuts on the extreme right to wig out too.
That’s when you know the gummint is operating smoothly. It’s only when the very tail ends of the political Bell curve are twitching and screaming that things can be deemed to be going okay.
For if one of those fringes are happy?
Well, that’s when you have serious problems, Chief.
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P.S. – That federal trial judge was appointed by President Bush. Earlier he was appointed into the D.C.’s internal court system by . . . Ronald Reagan . . . then a second time by George H.W. Bush. He also worked in Bush 41’s administration.
Cue the imperial theme music.
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