Conservative Darling, Michael Luttig, has angrily resigned

[liberalpragmatist]

This guy was supposed to be one of Bush's SC picks and is VERY conservative.

However, according to this Wall Street Journal story, he had a major falling out with the Bush administration and has now resigned.

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB114727449814548996-lMyQjAxMDE2NDE3MTIxNzE0Wj.html

McLEAN, Va. -- On Nov. 22, U.S. Circuit Judge J. Michael Luttig was at work in his chambers here when he received a telephone call telling him to switch on the television. There, he saw Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announce that the government would file charges against Jose Padilla in a federal court -- treating the accused terrorist like a normal criminal suspect.

The judge was stunned. Two months earlier, he had written a landmark opinion saying the government could hold Mr. Padilla without charge in a military brig. (Read the opinion.) The decision validated President Bush's claim that he could set aside Mr. Padilla's constitutional rights in the name of national security. The judge assumed the government had a compelling reason to consider the suspect an extraordinary threat. Now Mr. Gonzales wanted the courts to forget the whole case.

It didn't take long for the judge's anger to burst out into the open. The next month he wrote that moves such as the attorney general's cast doubt on the Bush administration's "credibility before the courts." Judge Luttig tried to block Mr. Padilla's transfer to civilian custody from the brig. The administration's top litigator fired back that the judge "defies both law and logic."

[MissWaverly]

1. Hooray, so much for "activist" judges

I want judges to consider the constitution first and not politics