Judge Compares Bush to Mussolini
From the New York Sun:
A prominent federal judge has told a conference of liberal lawyers that President Bush’s rise to power was similar to the accession of dictators such as Mussolini and Hitler.
“In a way that occurred before but is rare in the United States…somebody came to power as a result of the illegitimate acts of a legitimate institution that had the right to put somebody in power.That is what the Supreme Court did in Bush versus Gore. It put somebody in power,” said Guido Calabresi, a judge on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, which sits in Manhattan.
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Judge Calabresi, a former dean of Yale Law School, said Mr. Bush has asserted the full prerogatives of his office, despite his lack of a compelling electoral mandate from the public.
“When somebody has come in that way, they sometimes have tried not to exercise much power. In this case, like Mussolini, he has exercised extraordinary power. He has exercised power, claimed power for himself; that has not occurred since Franklin Roosevelt who, after all, was elected big and who did some of the same things with respect to assertions of power in times of crisis that this president is doing,” he said.
The 71-year-old judge declared that members of the public should, without regard to their political views, expel Mr. Bush from office in order to cleanse the democratic system.
Matt's Chat
Checking my scorecard, I see the following...A Clinton nominee, how 'bout that... Judges should not be allowed to get away with garbage like this.Born:
1932 in Milan, Italy
Federal Judicial Service:
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Nominated by William J. Clinton on February 9, 1994, to a seat vacated by Thomas Joseph Meskill; Confirmed by the Senate on July 18, 1994, and received commission on July 21, 1994.
Education:
Yale University, B.S., 1953
Magdalen College, Oxford University, B.A., 1955
Yale Law School, LL.B., 1958
Professional Career:
Law clerk, Justice Hugo Black, Supreme Court of the United States, 1958-1959
Professor, Yale Law School, 1959-1994
Dean, Yale Law School, 1985-1994
Town selectman, Town of Woodbridge, Connecticut, 1971-1975
Race or Ethnicity:
White
Gender:
Male
Mark's Remarks
This person is wrong. Bush is nothing like Mussolini. Mussolini marched around and bullied and threatened people before he was elected. He staged a coup detat for the most part to gain power. Bush was elected ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY HER CONSTITUTION, AND EVERY SINGLE RECOUNT DECLARED HIM THE WINNER ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION. I am sick of the selected not elected garbage. It really is wrong and old, and it is counter productive. This moron should know history better than he does, for Mussolini was a thug on the streets, and again, Bush WAS ELECTED ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THE ELECTION WAS DECIDED ACCORDING TO THE RULE OF LAW. If this guy doesn't like it, then quit adjudicating and do something about it. Oh wait, he is a lefty, so he wants to legislate from the bench so he can protect his butt when people call out for accountability on ridiculous laws.
