We Do Not Need This Version of Murphy’s Law on the Federal Bench
The Bush Administration has betrayed its lack of seriousness about controlling immigration and conducting the War on Terror outside of Iraq by nominating Stephen Murphy III to serve as judge on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The awesome research on and awful detail about Murphy at Debbie Schlussel’s post from a month ago confirms what she says early in that post:
….. the Bush nomination of Stephen Murphy should shock all freedom-loving Americans, let alone conservatives…..
If you can’t get through the whole post, please, please read Debbie’s nine bullet-point reasons to oppose him that appear near its beginning. My “favorite,” which shows beyond doubt that he has refused to carry out his duties in the past, and will continue to do so in the future, is this one: “Deliberately sat on multiple terror indictments and waited until Hezbollah terrorists were safely out of the country before he chose to do anything against them.”
I sent an e-mail that also appears in one of the comments at Debbie’s June post to Ohio Senator and Senate Judiciary Committee member Mike DeWine in mid-June before the Murphy nomination became official, urging him to have the Senate Judiciary Committee convince the administration not to nominate him, and posted at the SOB Alliance encouraging others to do the same. I just sent another telling him that he risks losing my vote in November if he supports the nomination. I encourage others to communicate their position on the Murphy nomination to the Judiciary Committee member of their choice. Drafting a letter should be easy: Just copy and paste Debbie’s nine bullet points.
I believe that any senator who approves the Murphy nomination with full knowledge of what is in Debbie Schlussel’s post will be demonstrating dereliction of duty.
If this post at Confirm Them is any indication, Murphy is clearly getting a pass in the righty blogosphere, perhaps on the assumption that the Bush administration is doing an acceptable job vetting its nominees. In this case, the assumption is dangerously wrong.
There is every reason to believe that if this nomination goes through, the new Murphy’s Law in the 6th Circuit will be “any thing I can do to thwart the War on Terror and immigration law enforcement, I will do.”
