Senate Confirms David Barron, Drone Memo Author, As Federal Judge

[Kevin_Kennedy]

The Senate on Thursday confirmed David Barron to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, overcoming bipartisan opposition over legal memos he authored justifying the use of drones to kill American terrorist suspects overseas.

The final vote was 53 to 45. All Republicans opposed his confirmation, along with two Democrats: Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Mary Landrieu (La.).

Barron, who is currently a Harvard Law professor, faced resistance for weeks over the drone memos he drafted during his time at the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel early in the Obama administration. A group of liberal and conservative senators banded together and vowed to oppose him unless the administration made public all drone-related memos that Barron had a hand in crafting. The White House stepped up its game last week, sending White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler to Senate Democrats' weekly lunch to make the case for Barron and allowing lawmakers to view copies of Barron's memos in a secure Senate room.

Senate Confirms David Barron, Drone Memo Author, As Federal Judge

In what world can you argue that assassinating American citizens without due process is legal, and then get appointed as a federal judge?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

As if there was any doubt he would

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The Senate on Thursday confirmed David Barron to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, overcoming bipartisan opposition over legal memos he authored justifying the use of drones to kill American terrorist suspects overseas.

The final vote was 53 to 45. All Republicans opposed his confirmation, along with two Democrats: Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Mary Landrieu (La.).

Barron, who is currently a Harvard Law professor, faced resistance for weeks over the drone memos he drafted during his time at the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel early in the Obama administration. A group of liberal and conservative senators banded together and vowed to oppose him unless the administration made public all drone-related memos that Barron had a hand in crafting. The White House stepped up its game last week, sending White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler to Senate Democrats' weekly lunch to make the case for Barron and allowing lawmakers to view copies of Barron's memos in a secure Senate room.

Senate Confirms David Barron, Drone Memo Author, As Federal Judge

In what world can you argue that assassinating American citizens without due process is legal, and then get appointed as a federal judge?

Only in Obama's World

 

[JakeStarkey]

The Senate on Thursday confirmed David Barron to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, overcoming bipartisan opposition over legal memos he authored justifying the use of drones to kill American terrorist suspects overseas.

The final vote was 53 to 45. All Republicans opposed his confirmation, along with two Democrats: Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Mary Landrieu (La.).

Barron, who is currently a Harvard Law professor, faced resistance for weeks over the drone memos he drafted during his time at the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel early in the Obama administration. A group of liberal and conservative senators banded together and vowed to oppose him unless the administration made public all drone-related memos that Barron had a hand in crafting. The White House stepped up its game last week, sending White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler to Senate Democrats' weekly lunch to make the case for Barron and allowing lawmakers to view copies of Barron's memos in a secure Senate room.

Senate Confirms David Barron, Drone Memo Author, As Federal Judge

In what world can you argue that assassinating American citizens without due process is legal, and then get appointed as a federal judge?

When Americans evade due process, Kevin.

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

The Senate on Thursday confirmed David Barron to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, overcoming bipartisan opposition over legal memos he authored justifying the use of drones to kill American terrorist suspects overseas.

The final vote was 53 to 45. All Republicans opposed his confirmation, along with two Democrats: Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Mary Landrieu (La.).

Barron, who is currently a Harvard Law professor, faced resistance for weeks over the drone memos he drafted during his time at the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel early in the Obama administration. A group of liberal and conservative senators banded together and vowed to oppose him unless the administration made public all drone-related memos that Barron had a hand in crafting. The White House stepped up its game last week, sending White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler to Senate Democrats' weekly lunch to make the case for Barron and allowing lawmakers to view copies of Barron's memos in a secure Senate room.

Senate Confirms David Barron, Drone Memo Author, As Federal Judge

In what world can you argue that assassinating American citizens without due process is legal, and then get appointed as a federal judge?

Only in Obama's World

I have zero doubt that no future administration, Democrat or Republican, will seek to change Obama's assassination policies, aside from possibly making them more extreme if that's possible.

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

The Senate on Thursday confirmed David Barron to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, overcoming bipartisan opposition over legal memos he authored justifying the use of drones to kill American terrorist suspects overseas.

The final vote was 53 to 45. All Republicans opposed his confirmation, along with two Democrats: Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Mary Landrieu (La.).

Barron, who is currently a Harvard Law professor, faced resistance for weeks over the drone memos he drafted during his time at the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel early in the Obama administration. A group of liberal and conservative senators banded together and vowed to oppose him unless the administration made public all drone-related memos that Barron had a hand in crafting. The White House stepped up its game last week, sending White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler to Senate Democrats' weekly lunch to make the case for Barron and allowing lawmakers to view copies of Barron's memos in a secure Senate room.

Senate Confirms David Barron, Drone Memo Author, As Federal Judge

In what world can you argue that assassinating American citizens without due process is legal, and then get appointed as a federal judge?

When Americans evade due process, Kevin.

You're saying there couldn't have been a trial for Anwar al-Awlaki without his being present? What about his son, Abdulrahman?

 

[JakeStarkey]

Senate Confirms David Barron, Drone Memo Author, As Federal Judge

In what world can you argue that assassinating American citizens without due process is legal, and then get appointed as a federal judge?

When Americans evade due process, Kevin.

You're saying there couldn't have been a trial for Anwar al-Awlaki without his being present? What about his son, Abdulrahman?

Why? In absentia? And his son hanging with bad guys?

Think this through. If I were governor of Utah, and we had managed to rescue the women and children of Warren Jeffs' type plygs, who holed themselves up where they were safe but a danger to everybody in there, what would you do?

I would bring dragon fire on them in a dragon heart beat.

Dangerous criminals who will not surrender, who not submit to due process, lose due process.

The issue is one of technology, not due process.

And some of the militias across the country are in terror of it.

 

[Samson]

The Senate on Thursday confirmed David Barron to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, overcoming bipartisan opposition over legal memos he authored justifying the use of drones to kill American terrorist suspects overseas.

The final vote was 53 to 45. All Republicans opposed his confirmation, along with two Democrats: Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Mary Landrieu (La.).

Barron, who is currently a Harvard Law professor, faced resistance for weeks over the drone memos he drafted during his time at the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel early in the Obama administration. A group of liberal and conservative senators banded together and vowed to oppose him unless the administration made public all drone-related memos that Barron had a hand in crafting. The White House stepped up its game last week, sending White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler to Senate Democrats' weekly lunch to make the case for Barron and allowing lawmakers to view copies of Barron's memos in a secure Senate room.

Senate Confirms David Barron, Drone Memo Author, As Federal Judge

In what world can you argue that assassinating American citizens without due process is legal, and then get appointed as a federal judge?

When Americans evade due process, Kevin.

You mean like they did in 1776?

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

When Americans evade due process, Kevin.

You're saying there couldn't have been a trial for Anwar al-Awlaki without his being present? What about his son, Abdulrahman?

Why? In absentia? And his son hanging with bad guys?

Think this through. If I were governor of Utah, and we had managed to rescue the women and children of Warren Jeffs' type plygs, who holed themselves up where they were safe but a danger to everybody in there, what would you do?

I would bring dragon fire on them in a dragon heart beat.

Dangerous criminals who will not surrender, who not submit to due process, lose due process.

The issue is one of technology, not due process.

And some of the militias across the country are in terror of it.

Yes, in absentia, and what evidence do you have that his son was hanging with "bad guys?" The only evidence we have is from the family who claim he was not hanging with bad guys but was at a barbecue. The government refuses to comment because it would negatively impact "national security."

 

[natstew]

this is what happens when you change the rules to fit your agenda.

 

[natstew]

This is about Harry Reid changing 200+ years of precedent so Obama can get his far left kooks appointed to the Federal Courts.

This is another case of Democrat tyranny.

 

[Steven_R]

When Americans evade due process, Kevin.

You're saying there couldn't have been a trial for Anwar al-Awlaki without his being present? What about his son, Abdulrahman?

Why? In absentia? And his son hanging with bad guys?

Think this through. If I were governor of Utah, and we had managed to rescue the women and children of Warren Jeffs' type plygs, who holed themselves up where they were safe but a danger to everybody in there, what would you do?

I would bring dragon fire on them in a dragon heart beat.

Dangerous criminals who will not surrender, who not submit to due process, lose due process.

The issue is one of technology, not due process.

And some of the militias across the country are in terror of it.

I'm not seeing any part of the Constitution that allows police to conduct assassination missions on US soil because the people they want to arrest are dug in and will require a fight to get to. I get that "office safety" is the biggest excuse the courts use to abrogate the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments, but is that really a road we want to go down? How long after we use drones to simply kill the Warren Jeffs of the US until we expand the criteria to use drones instead of no knock warrants on drug raids, you know because Pookie has a gun and officer safety trumps Pookie's rights?