Yep, ladies and Gents, this guy is someone who is a radical ideologue, worthy of impeachment. Who am I talking about? Judge Robert Chatigny of Connecticut, appointed by Bubba in 1994. The text below is from Human Events, with emphases added by me, following are some other links about the story and this judicial activist.
While many conservatives want Congress to hold activist judges accountable, the House Judiciary Committee hasn't investigated a referral of a potential impeachment case involving a Clinton-appointed federal judge in Connecticut who engaged in what appeared to be a personal crusade to stop the execution of a serial killer.
Connecticut legislators sent a letter February 1 to the House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner asking the committee to investigate U.S. District Judge Robert Chatigny's efforts to save Michael Ross, a man who killed eight women in the 1980s, raping most of them. The state sentenced Ross to death in 1984.
"By failing to respect and comply with the law," the letter stated, "and by failing to act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary, Judge Chatigny may have violated the code of conduct of United States' judges."
So, what did this case involve...we continue with the account in the letter to the House Committee as related by Human Events:
Last year Ross decided to drop all appeals and be executed. But the state's public defender office argued he wasn't competent to make that decision, despite numerous competency evaluations that showed otherwise. Ross fired his public defenders and hired a private attorney, T.R. Paulding, who had the unusual role of defending his client's right to be executed. After failing in state courts, public defenders brought their case to U.S. District Court, with Chatigny presiding.
Chatigny sided with the public defender's argument from the that Ross had "death row syndrome," which means the conditions on death row are so unpleasant it caused depression and made him want to die, thus he wasn't capable of making a life or death decision on his own. The case moved quickly to the U.S. Supreme Court, which overturned Chatigny's decision and ruled in favor of executing Ross on January 29, just hours before it was scheduled.
Before the high court even ruled, Chatigny took matters into his own hands.
During a conference call with Paulding, Chatigny said Ross "never should have been convicted. Or if convicted, he never should have been sentenced to death," according to court transcripts.
In the call, the judge referenced an affidavit filed by former inmate Ramon Lopez and a former prison official who said Ross wanted to die to escape death row.
"You better be prepared to deal with me if in the wake of this an investigation is conducted and it turns out that what Lopez says and what this former program director says is true, because I'll have your law license," Chatigny told Paulding.
After the call, Paulding asked to postpone the execution. The state had to comply, just as it would have if Ross had asked for an appeal. It seemed that a federal judge used personal threats to push his own agenda and disregard even the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling.
OK, so we have a Clinton Appointee making threats....where is Senator George Voinovich to go out and say how meanspirited this guy was? Where is Chuck TheShmuck Schumer to talk about this person's lack of class? Where is Joe Biden to talk about this jurist's "judggggggeeement"?
This needs to be investigated. This judge should be impeached. Unlike the Left, here we have a clear case of a judge doing extreme and radical things, even subverting the US Supreme Court, to see his own decision takes the case.
Of course, liberals will see nothing wrong with this, since they applaud a Florida judge who thumbed his nose at Congress during the Schiavo case.
This judge needs to be impeached; he needs to be disbarred. Thankfully, however, Justice did prevail. Ross was executed last week.
Here is some more of the "Great" Decisions that this radical left wing extremist has made...be thankful he is not in your state:
He ruled the Connecticut sex-offender registry to be unconstitutional and that Megan's Law violates due-process rights, a decision later overturned. He also sentenced a man trading child pornography online to six months in prison when guidelines called for a sentence of 15 to 21 months.
They don't want Janice Rogers Brown or Priscilla Owen because they think parents should be notified their children are having an invasive medical procedure called abortion, but they want someone like this, who demeans laws meant to protect our children?
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