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Sat May 2, 2020, 11:38 AM May 2020

Judge arguing government execute people any way it wants

May 1, 2020, 1:16pm Lisa Needham


... A Roll Call investigation published in March found that just three Republican senators on the 22-member Judiciary Committee got more contributions than the rest of the committee combined. And nearly all of that money came from judicial nominees the three senators — Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn of Texas and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, the committee’s chair — eventually supported ...

... Katsas .. stated he would have reversed the preliminary injunction. In his view, the “important governmental and public interested in the timely implementation of capital punishment” is a more substantial harm than the possibility an execution method is impermissible or cruel and unusual under the Eighth Amendment ...

... the American Bar Association deemed Walker “not qualified” for the district court judgeship because, in part, he had never tried a case ...

... during the U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Walker made the rounds of talk shows — over 100 of them between June and October 2018 — ceaselessly defending Kavanaugh ...

... Walker’s opinion began surreally, declaring Fischer had “criminalized the communal celebration of Easter” ... Walker eventually got to the facts of the case, saying Fischer was issuing “threats” when he said, “In order to save lives, we must not gather in churches, drive-through services, family gatherings, social gatherings this weekend” ...

... However, it appears Walker didn’t ever actually talk to Fischer nor hold a routine status conference, a brief procedural phone call that could have resolved whether Louisville was truly going to stop On Fire from its drive-in Easter celebration ...

https://rewire.news/article/2020/05/01/meet-the-trump-judge-arguing-the-government-can-execute-people-any-way-it-wants/

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