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Monday, October 18, 2010
Ind. Courts - Judge David to become Justice Davd today
There is to be a swearing-in ceremony, but I'm not finding a release on it yet ... [Here it is, from 9/28/10: 10:30 am this morning. Also available for live online viewing, via link available in the right margin of the main Courts page.]
The AP is reporting:
Steven David has been the Boone County circuit court judge for 15 years. Gov. Mitch Daniels is to administer the oath of office to David during a ceremony Monday morning in the Supreme Court's[More] Maureen Hayden, Statehouse bureau chief for CNHI’s Indiana newspapers, has this story this morning in the Anderson Herald Bulletin. A quote:
In selecting David, Gov. Mitch Daniels cited David’s 27-year military career and described him as a conservative judge “who interprets rather than invents our laws.”But David drew the ire of the Bush administration in 2008, when he openly disagreed with a Pentagon spokesman who said the military had “gone to great lengths to provide a system that is full, fair and just” for some of most notorious detainees at Guantanamo.
David was critical of the use of water-boarding, a simulated drowning technique used on detainees by military interrogators. He also went on record welcoming the American Civil Liberties Union’s offer to provide a team of top civilian attorneys to aid the defense of Guantanamo’s highest profile prisoners facing conviction and execution.
The “conservative” label doesn’t quite fit David, says Indiana University-Indianapolis law school professor Joel Schumm. “That kind of label doesn’t really work anymore. It’s more accurate to describe him as a defender of the rule of law. Conservative and liberal jurists alike can agree on that.”
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 18, 2010 08:09 AM
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