Michael Ludick(sp?) - SC nominee - what do we know about him?

Laura Ingraham is getting damp for this guy as the next SC nominee.

Must be an arch-con/bush cabal charter member if she is so ga-ga.

Anyone have details on his history?

Who happens to be a liberal democrat?

You may be thinking of DeLay's attny, Dick DeGuerin, who claims to be a Dem, but isn't.

I know, it's hard to keep all the RW criminals straight these days!

Michael Luttig, 51, worked in the Justice Department during the administration of the first president Bush and has served on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. He was a law clerk to the late Chief Justice Warren Burger from 1983-84.

He doesn't appear to support civil rights and due process and may support more power for the government over individual rights.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9268598/

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“The exceedingly important question before us is whether the President of the United States possesses the authority to detain militarily a citizen of this country who is closely associated with al Qaeda, an entity with which the United States is at war,” Judge Michael Luttig wrote. “We conclude that the President does possess such authority.”

A federal judge in South Carolina had ruled in March that the government cannot hold Padilla indefinitely as an “enemy combatant,” a designation President Bush gave him in 2002. The government views Padilla as a militant who planned attacks on the United States.

Broader implications for America
Padilla's attorney said his client would probably appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, adding that the 4th Circuit's decision could have grave implications for all Americans.

“It's a matter of how paranoid you are,” Andrew Patel said. “What it could mean is that the president conceivably could sign a piece of paper when he has hearsay information that somebody has done something he doesn't like and send them to jail — without a hearing (or) a trial.”

With his decision in the Padilla case he would look so wonderful standing in front of a stack of Abu Greib photos.

I'm sure his views on Guantanamo would be well received as well.

Thank you Laura, for gift-wrapping yet another present to the American mainstream.

Keep harping on this guy - he's the smartest man I've ever met!