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Frome newshounds.us:
All this past week, FOX's Bill O'Reilly ranted and raved about "the worst judge ever", asking viewers to demand Democrat Ohio Judge Connor's ouster. The wheels of injustice were spinning furiously through the week, with a statement from Ohio's Republican Attorney General Petro saying the Republican-led legislature was working on resolutions to remove the judge, hopefully within a week. The whole process came to a screeching halt Friday as it was learned that plea deals and probation for sex offenders is fairly common across Ohio, imposed by both Democrat and Republican judges. In other words, if they impeached/removed Connor, they'd have to remove all the judges who did the same thing. Apparently Judge Connor is NOT the worst Judge in the world; think O'Reilly will apologize for the smears he broadcast all week?
According to The Columbus Dispatch,
More than 60,000 criminal cases are filed annually in Ohio, and plea deals are used to resolve the lion’s share. Remove the cases that are dismissed and more than 97 percent in Franklin County Common Pleas Court are resolved through deals rather than trials, figures kept by the Ohio Supreme Court show. "It’s a practical reality in virtually every court I’m aware of across this land," Common Pleas Judge Daniel T. Hogan said yesterday. "It does not take rocket science to see that if all those cases went to trial, we would grind to a halt."
Hogan, the administrative judge on the 17-member bench, noted that, "In sex cases, particularly those involving children, the overall sentiment of parents is that they don’t want their child to endure a jury trial. Prosecutors often offer pleas in the case just to spare the child."
The decision to halt actions against the judge was painted by Republican leaders in The Columbus Dispatch and other publications as a reaction to Democrat partisanship:
House Speaker Jon A. Husted backed away from an effort to oust Connor, which requires backing by two-thirds of the House and Senate. A lack of Democratic support was blamed for dooming the effort.
"We’re not going to put together any kangaroo court," said Scott Borgemenke, Husted’s chief of staff. "We are not going to introduce a resolution just to have a partisan debate on impeachment. Introducing a resolution on impeachment without having some bipartisan discussions first is irresponsible in this kind of statewide election year."
Joyce Beatty, House Democratic leader, said singling out Connor was little more than a political ploy.
"He is not the only judge who has given probation to someone doing the same thing with a minor," the Columbus lawmaker said. "I think we have to be very careful that this is not a political act."
Husted backed away from an effort to oust Connor
Here is a good comment from Newshounds:
O'Reilly only gave us the part of the story that supported the agenda behind it - removing a Democratic judge at the behest of Republicans. He abused his position and the trust of his viewers by sensationalist, selective reporting, targeting outrage at one judge unjustly, and in the process smearing the judge's reputation.
Bill O'Reilly is a venomous pompous hypocrite, a tool of Republicans, and anyone who continues to believe him is a fool. He owes Judge Connor an apology for singling him out, and HE, Bill O'Reilly, should resign.
Stewert: I agree with that comment 100 percent. This was a plan by Republicans in Ohio to get a Democrat judge removed from the bench, when he was elected by the people, and he was only doing what many other judges do all the time. And O'Reilly was helping the Republicans in Ohio to try and get this judge removed from the bench, even though he was elected by the people. If they want him out then let the people vote him out in the next elections, O'Reilly should not be trying to get elected judges impeached from any party.
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