Puryear Case Bears Watching
I was going to link to Orrin Hatch’s excellent piece, but Feddie beat me to it. But the comment by “Dolly Madison” below Feddie’s post is worth promoting to its own blog post. My info is that Puryear is being horribly abused (in other words, a typical smear job from the left), and I hope to write extensively on the case soon. Meanwhile, though, Dolly’s post, and the link therein, are important reading. This is where the judge wars spread to the District Court level — which is a sad and terrible development.
April 1st, 2008 at 5:30 pm
The Tennesseans for Puryear website http://www.tnforpuryear.com has some great stuff on the point man against Puryear’s nomination, Alex Friedmann. Turns out that Friedmann, who is funded to some degree by police unions who don’t like Puryear’s employer, a private prison company. He was convicted of attempted murder (store owner and father and son customers) and armed robbery, and later of criminal attempt to commit aggravated robbery (shoplifting an pulling a pistol on a store manager). I bet the rank and file cops would love to know that their union dues are being spent to support a triple attempted murderer/armed robber/recidivist felon who opposes a law and order judicial nominee like Puryear.