October 26, 2006
Who is your LEAST favorite Washington Supreme Court justice?
[Inspired by an item at
Instapundit]
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at October 26, 2006
05:15 PM | Email This
1. Decisions, decisions...
I think the question would be better phrased:
'Which Supreme Court Judge do you find least objectionable?'.
2. Brand new Gourley v. Gourley decision destroys the right to due process of law. Justice Susan Owens joined in Justice James Johnson's incredibly dissapointing majority opinion. Justice Richard Sanders, as usual, is the only judge in the State of Washington who "gets it".
The essentials of this decision is that because Mr. Gourley admitted to rubbing aloe vera on his child's sunburn, that was tantamount to an admission of sexual abuse.
Which he vehemently denied.
The only way anyone can credibly deny such an allegation.
So that justifies admitting hearsay evidence, deciding the entire case on hearsay evidence with no requirement that the accuser present herself for cross examination before the trier of fact, which is always a judge or commissioner (they are always fair and impartial, GAG!) and in protection order cases, never a jury. If some EVIDENCE RULE allows hearsay evidence to be considered in a protection order hearing, well that's enough due process for everyone, isn't it?
So here is the deal parents (fathers):
You admit to touching your child's pubic area to clean the bodily waste while changing a diaper, you too are eligible for being thrown out of your own home you paid for with your paychecks and prohibited from access to your children without any requirement for any cross examination of your accusers.
Not to mention an unreasonable child support order taken out of your paycheck as an added bonus, along with the state sponsored armed robbery, extortion, and peonage that is the support enforcement regime.
And the loss of the right to keep and bear arms under 18 U.S.C. ยง922(g)(8).
Even if the county prosecutors drop the charge because they don't like their chances with a JURY and with the HEARSAY RULE fully enforced.
Opinions available at
http://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/?fa=opinions.recent
Only Richard Sanders proved he gets it.
Considering that James Johnson and Tom Chambers got it in the Amunrud license suspension for child support case, one can be forgiven if one suspects that Justices Johnson and Chambers each woke up with a horse's head in their bed.
3. I'd need at least five opportunities to vote on this one. It's a tie among Alexander, Bridge, Owens, Madsen, and Fairhurst. I appreciated another blogger's comment (on a similar topic) that he will still write in another name for Position 1 (already won by Alexander).
4. I voted for the drunk. Can you guess which one she was?
5. Alexander is the worst. Owens and Fairhurst are both as dumb as boxes of rocks. Sanders ids the best justice. Madsen is actually not bad on most issues. Jim Johnson is disappointing when it comes to protecting the constitutional rights of those wrongfully accused of committing crimes. Bobbe Bridge, besides being a drunk, is getting senile.
6. I'm writing in John Groen against Alexander.
7. my vote also is for Otis' intern from Andy Griffith.
8. After watching her no show at the debate, putting Phil, the panel, and the audience in one heck of a bind, was more than enough to doubt her credibility.
Steven Johnson gets my vote!