If You Can’t Change the Judgment, Change the Judge
No, this is not about Judge Roberts. It’s yet another example of a so-called Justice Department that’s confused about what constitutes justice.
After nine years of obfuscation and delay and outright lies, Justice is asking for the replacement of the long-suffering judge who’s had to listen to all this clap-trap on the part of the Interior Department’s handling (or failing to handle) 260,000 Indian trust accounts. The failures aren’t recent, by the way, they go back over a hundred years.
A hundred years?
Yep. A hundred years of non-management, followed by nine years in court, failing to change their ways and Interior thinks they’re being unfairly abused. Scalping, it seems to me at this point, would be more than fair. Or maybe tied down over an ant hill. But fairness, like beauty, is always in the eyes of the beholder and Interior is miffed about Judge Lamberth’s July ruling, which it characterizes as “unlike any other judicial opinion that we have ever seen.”
On the other hand, there…