A federal judge has entitled the Obama administration to lie about killing Americans. This is the assured result of a recent ruling permitting continued secrecy about Obama’s assassination program.
Judge Colleen McMahon bewailed the “veritable Catch-22” of rules that permit the Obama administration to declare legal “actions that seem on their face incompatible with our Constitution and laws, while keeping the reasons for their conclusion a secret.”
But she upheld the administration’s claim that it was entitled to almost boundless secrecy about its killing program.
I would love to see Judge McMahon cross-examined under oath about exactly how she considers herself to be earning her paycheck.
Simple. Nobody is ever going to appoint a federal judge who actually believes in the Constitution. That would create … problems.
There have been some good judges appointed perhaps almost by accident in the last few decades. But the best ones don’t rise in the profession.