Durbin Takes on Judge Over Combatants

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Durbin Takes on Judge Over Combatants

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

(06-26) 15:44 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --

A Senate Democratic leader Tuesday urged a Bush-appointed
judge to recuse himself from cases involving enemy combatants
and requested an explanation about information that might
contradict his testimony about the White House's detainee
policy.

"It appears that you misled me, the Senate Judiciary Committee,
and the nation," Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois
wrote to Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia.

He urged Kavanaugh to remove himself from "all pending and
subsequent cases involving detainees and enemy combatants."
Kavanaugh's court gets more detainee cases than any other.

-snip-

At issue is whether Kavanaugh, then White House staff secretary,
misled the Senate panel during his confirmation hearing in May
last year about how much he was involved in crafting the
administration's policy on enemy combatants.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/26/national/w154433D67.DTL

[indepat]

1. Is lying to a committee of the Congress or the Congress itself a grounds for impeachment? If so,

let the impeachment brigade be forming for all who lied in confirmation hearings.

[nealmhughes]

2. Kavanaugh was Kenny Boy Starr's top boy during Monicagate.

Here is only a sample of what the Left had to say about him when he was nominated in 03:

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=15165

[Senator]

4. Yes, one of "the unemployable and the obsessed"

According to Jeffrey Toobin:

PRESS: Just to make the point and then go back to Mary, in fact, you sum it up that what Starr was left with after the people that were working for Robert Fiske left were the unemployable and the obsessed? That sums up the staff?

TOOBIN: And it really was that's who was in charge of this investigation, and that's why it was such a failure.

In other words, prime bushie material.

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[msanthrope]

6. Indeed--wasn't he one of the "Killer B's"????

[maddezmom]

3. K&R

[struggle4progress]

5. Democratic senator (Leahy) seeks probe of a Bush judge

Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:57PM EDT

~snip~ Leahy also asked that Judge Brett Kavanaugh be prosecuted if it is determined that he misled Congress about his involvement in drafting the policies in testimony at his Senate confirmation hearing in May 2006. ~snip~

Durbin and Leahy noted that Kavanaugh had testified: "'Senator, I did not -- I was not involved and am not involved in the questions about the rules governing detention of combatants." ~snip~

The senators cited reports by The Washington Post and National Public Radio that Kavanaugh had participated in discussions by White House lawyers in 2002 about whether the Supreme Court would uphold the detention policies. ~snip~

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2732407920070627