SPITZER: LANNY BREUER AT DOJ WAS A “DISASTER”

[Jim Lane]

6. Wait, you're FAULTING Spitzer for promoting Moskowitz????

You write:

As for myself - I've got several bones to pick with Eliot Spitzer. ... As Governor - he promoted Judge Moskowitz (who was going after Romney's Paul Traub) - OFF the case.

I practice law in New York. I've seen quite a few of our judges in action (or, in all too many cases, in inaction). I've appeared before Karla Moskowitz and she is definitely in the top tier, in terms of her fairness and legal knowledge.

Spitzer did a good thing when he elevated her from the trial court to a more powerful position on the appellate court. Yes, at the time he did so she had cases pending before her (hundreds of them, in fact), which had to be reassigned. Yes, it would have been nice if she could have been cloned so that one of her would stay on those cases while the other went to the Appellate Division, but that's not possible.

If you say the Governor should never promote a trial judge who's doing a good job on a case you care about, then the only judges who go to the Appellate Division will the dimwits and time-serving party hacks. Please, we do NOT want our appeals heard before a bench like that.