{"id":101,"date":"2005-11-02T18:40:08","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T00:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=101"},"modified":"2005-11-02T14:40:30","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T20:40:30","slug":"a-judge-of-ones-peers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/a-judge-of-ones-peers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Judge of One’s Peers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think it is vital that a defendant have confidence he can get a fair <\/p>\n

trial.<\/p>\n

However, note what The Hammer is doing here. He is saying that no one can judge a Republican but another <\/p>\n

Republican<\/strong>. He is demanding a separate and unequal judicial system. It’s not just a jury of one’s peers now, it is a judge, as <\/p>\n

well. This is part of the corrossive influence of that strange paranoia of the Right Wing that there is uncontrollable bias everywhere. <\/p>\n

Why didn’t all the Republicans recuse themselves during Clinton’s impeachment? Oh, of course, because they are holier than thou.<\/p>\n

I’ll be sure to ask the next cop to stop me what his party affiliation is. Let’s see how that stands up in court. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Defense Wins New Judge in DeLay Case<\/a> By Sylvia Moreno, Washington <\/p>\n

Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n

DeLay’s lawyers argued that Perkins’s impartiality appears to be compromised by his contributing money to <\/p>\n

national and local Democratic candidates, as well as to MoveOn.org, a group that has targeted DeLay’s defeat in national fundraising <\/p>\n

efforts.<\/p>\n

DeLay Loath <\/p>\n

to Doff His Leadership Hat<\/a>
\nActive Role Divides House Republicans
\nBy Jonathan Weisman, Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n

Former House majority leader Tom DeLay’s efforts to retain power despite his indictment have angered some rank-and-file Republicans, <\/p>\n

many of whom say his ethical problems and uncertain status are staining them and destabilizing GOP unity.<\/p>\n

Although he was forced <\/p>\n

to relinquish his leadership post Sept. 28, after the first of two indictments for alleged involvement in money laundering related to the <\/p>\n

2002 Texas election, DeLay continues to use an office in the leadership suite, occasionally presides over private meetings with <\/p>\n

committee chairmen and lobbies members during key floor votes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think it is vital that a defendant have confidence he can get a fair trial. However, note what The Hammer is doing here. He is saying that no one can judge a Republican but another Republican. He is demanding a separate and unequal judicial system. It’s not just a jury of one’s peers now, … Continue reading A Judge of One’s Peers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}