[Peace-discuss] FW: C-U's Georgie Porgie Will Endorses Feddie Boy George Gray/C-U News Gazette

[Boyle, Francis A]

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
(personal comments only)

From: Boyle, Francis A
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Subject: C-U's Georgie Porgie Will Endorses Feddie Boy George Gray/C-U News Gazette

"In the end," { Feddie Boy(den) George} Gray testified, "every other constitutional power runs into the appropriations power...designed to prevent the president..." As if the Feddie Boy George Gray could give diddly-squat about the Constitution, the Rule of Law, Separation of Powers or the Hyperimperial Presidency just  like his Co-Panelist Nicky Rosenkrantz, the lackey for War Criminals John Yoo and Jack Goldsmith could not. But hey,  don't take my word for it. Have a look at what the late, great Judge Lawrence Walsh had to say about Boy George Gray and the Feddies:
>From Iran-contra Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh, Firewall:
According to the conventional wisdom, we were in a double bind: The judges appointed by Democratic presidents were supposedly most concerned with protecting the constitutional rights of persons prosecuted for crimes, while most of the other judges owed their appointments to Ronald Reagan or George Bush, who had stated publicly and emphatically that they hoped that North would not be convicted.

            Over the years, I had often found such simplistic views to be wrong.  Most judges overcome the prejudices and alliances they had when appointed to the federal bench.  During my three and one-half years on the federal district court in New York, I had experienced the merging process by which new judges are absorbed into their courts.  My hard-line political and professional views had moderated during lunchroom conversations with Learned Hand, Jerome Frank, and Harold Medina and had dissolved after a couple of my decisions had been reversed on appeal.

            But I was concerned about the continuing political allegiance of Republican judges as manifested in the Federalist Society.  Although the organization was not openly partisan, its dogma was political.  It reminded me of the communist front groups of the 1940s and l950s, whose members were committed to the communist cause and subject to communist direction but were not card-carrying members of the Communist Party.  In calling for the narrow construction of constitutional grants of governmental power, the Federalist Society seemed to speak for right-wing Republicans.  I was especially troubled that one of White House Counsel Boyden Gray's assistants had openly declared that no one who was not a member of the Federalist Society had received a judicial appointment from President Bush.                                                                        Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E.Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Phone: 217-333-7954
Fax: 217-244-1478
fboyle at law.uiuc.edu<mailto:fboyle at law.uiuc.edu>
9 September 1997

Memorandum

TO: Robert H. Bork
Federalist Society

Dear Bob:
    Concerning your fund-raising letter of 28 August that just came to my attention, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for publicly associating me with a Lawyer and a Judge who has the principles, courage and integrity of Lawrence Walsh.
    For your information, that message and others like out were sent out all over the internet, not just to 30 professors, together with the full text of Judge Walsh's attack on the Federalist Society. Out of respect for Judge Walsh, I certainly do hope that my professorial colleagues will pay the most serious attention to what he had to say about the Federalist Society. After all, Judge Walsh is a pillar of the American Legal Establishment and of the Republican Party. As for myself, I have always been a political independent and resent your implication that I am a member of the Democrat Party.
    Be that as it may, it seems to me that you have only (once again!) made a fool of yourself by publicly attacking a Lawyer and a Judge with the courage, integrity and principles of Judge Walsh--characteristics that you yourself were not noted for as Solicitor General (when you fired Archie Cox, the first Special Prosecutor), during your tenure on the bench, or during your Supreme Court nomination hearings. Rather than publicly attacking Judge Walsh, I suggest that you personally as well as the Federalist Society institutionally should be giving the most serious consideration to what he had to say.

    Yours very truly,


    Francis A. Boyle
    Professor of Law


cc: Judge Lawrence Walsh





Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
(personal comments only)

From: Boyle, Francis A
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2016 8:03 PM
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Subject: Georgie Porgie Will Endorses Nicky Rosenkrantz/C-U News Gazette

Champaign-Urbana Native Georgie Porgie Will and Nicky Rosenkrantz deserve each other:
"...the appropriation power, Rosenkrantz testified, is Congress' "most potent check on executive overreach"-"the ultimate  backstop" against "a willful president." If Presidents could disburse money without an appropriation, "the careful constitutional separation of powers would  be thrown into disequilibrium.""
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As if Nicky could give diddly-squat about the Constitution, or the Rule of Law, or the  Separation of Powers, or the Hyperimperial Presidency. Nicky tried to get hired here. His resume clearly stated that he had worked for the war criminals John Yoo and Jack Goldsmith at the Department of Injustice, Office of Legal Counsel. Nicky  used the war criminals Yoo and Goldsmith as his personal references to be hired. The Yale Law Mafia in operation again, including the Chair of our  Appointments Committee and later fired Dean.  I went ballistic with the Faculty: We are not going to hire a War Criminal on my watch and over my dead body! Those concerns did not bother the Faculty at Georgetown Law, where the guiding principle is as cited by Georgie Porgie Will: "What's the Constitution between friends?" Good riddance to Nicky Rosenkrantz and Georgetown Law! Fab.
Georgetown Law

December 1976
Right out of HLS
Looking for a job
So the path took me
To Georgetown Law

2 days of interviews
Seemed to go alright
Then ushered in to meet
Dean Butch Fisher
Who bragged about being
The youngest legal advisor
In the history of the State Department
36
Not impressed
But would play the game

Mr Boyle
The Faculty would like to hire you
But we believe you need
More seasoning
Salt or pepper, I wondered

We would like you to go work
For DOS Legal Advisor for 4 or 5 years
And then we will hire you

Are you f-ing serious
Sell my soul
After State just spent
The past 15 years
Committing genocide in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
Exterminating upwards of 3 million human beings
Murdering 58,000 of my generation
Some of whom were friends
Are you f-ing serious Dean Butch
Who do you think you're dealing with

I politely declined and came here
Back then ranked the same as Georgetown Law
So I came out alright
But not to have the taint
Of the State Department
After my name

Where things have never changed
Murder, death, destruction, invasions
Assassinations, drones, genocide
Harold Koh fit right in like a glove

Fab





Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
(personal comments only)

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