The American Judiciary already Has More than Its Share of Ideologically Driven and Unrealistic Fools — Let’s Not Add Michael Boggs

05 June 2014

One sometimes has to wonder whether our noodle-spined President has lost all his increasingly unattractive marbles

Take his nomination of Michael Boggs to a lifetime position on the Federal District Court for Georgia’s northern district:

Boggs, who is up for a lifetime seat on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, has come under fire for his socially conservative record during his time as a Georgia state legislator from 2000 to 2004.

Among other things, he voted to keep the Confederate insignia on the Georgia state flag, to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, and to impose tighter restrictions on access to abortion.

During Boggs' confirmation hearing last month, Franken pressed him to explain his vote in 2001 for a measure that would have required doctors who perform abortions to post their profiles online, along with the number of abortions they performed.

Boggs said he didn't realize at the time the risks the amendment posed for doctors, telling the committee he'd never heard of health clinics being attacked or doctors being killed by radical anti-abortion protesters.

[Senator Al] Franken, among others, was perplexed by his response.

Boggs’ almost inconceivably inane reported response to the Committee’s abortion question indicates that he has the same vacuum-brained un-awareness of history and current events that the US Supreme Court’s Reality-challenged conservative majority does.

Another of those bigoted fascio-corporatists, we do not need.

The moral? — Our allegedly liberal President needs to man up and stop pretending that we can all get along

Or publicly confess that he’s a simpering Chief Justice John Roberts et al. suck-up.

PeteFree.com

The American Judiciary already Has More than Its Share of Ideologically Driven and Unrealistic Fools — Let’s Not Add Michael Boggs