Another lousy judicial nominee

June 16, 2007

Guest Post by Morbo

Richard Honaker believes abortion is murder and that biblical law should trump the secular law. Naturally, President George W. Bush wants to make him a federal judge.

Honaker is a former member of the Wyoming House of Representatives. While serving in that body, he pushed legislation that would have banned nearly all abortions in the state, arguing that abortion, for any reason, is murder.

Honaker’s views on the relationship of the Bible to the law are also, umm, “interesting.”
He told a religious newspaper:

“I came to know that if the Bible is true, if Christianity is true, then it is true in family life. It is true in economics. It is true in law, and it is true in all facets of human endeavor. I know that with only such a world view can Christians have any impact upon the culture around them.”

Not surprisingly, Honaker’s views have raised some alarm. But not to worry. As he explains it, he’s not likely to hear many abortion cases anyway, and if he does, the higher courts can always step in. “The losing party [could] appeal to the Tenth Circuit, and perhaps on to the United States Supreme Court, and nobody would remember what the trial judge did anyhow,” he said.

So Honaker’s argument is, “Don’t worry about my insane opinions! They’ll be overturned!”

The only thing sadder about this guy being nominated to the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming is the thought that he might get the job. Here’s hoping the Senate’s Democratic majority has the wherewithal to send this nutjob packing.

Oh my gods, he’s also a founder and major donor to yet another Fundy College, Patrick Henry College. The “home school defense” groups listed are both connected to our friend HoMaker.*

Seriously, do a search on this fuckwit and he becomes more, not less alarming.

And I wonder if this is his Pandora page.

http://www.pandora.com/people/RichardHonaker?print

(Don’t think the links thing will work twice in one post?)

tAiO

* I wonder if they’d come to the defense of gay parents who wanted to homeschool.

  • The losing party [could] appeal to the Tenth Circuit, and perhaps on to the United States Supreme Court, and nobody would remember what the trial judge did anyhow

    This attitude from a potential appellate judge is atrocious. Of all people, they should know the relative improbability of reaching the appellate level, and the even slimmer chance of reaching the supreme court. Not that it appears, from his other statements, that he has any comprehension of how the law actually works.

  • Now I remember why it was that I used to plan my transcontinenal drives so that I’d hit Omaha at sunset and Salt Lake City at sunrise, to particularly avoid having to deal with anyone in Wyoming who didn’t work at a freeway-side gas station. That place is soooooooo idiotic it didn’t even make sense to me when at the age of 10 I went with my family to visit Yellowstone. No wonder someone like Honaker gets taken seriously there. It is, after all, the place where Cheney was spawned.

  • The only thing sadder about this guy being nominated to the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming is the thought that he might get the job. Here’s hoping the Senate’s Democratic majority has the wherewithal to send this nutjob packing. — Morbo

    It is, indeed a worrisome possibility that the nutjob will clear it through the Senate. There were rumours recently (on TPMMuckraker, maybe?) that Diane Feinstein and some others might be caving in on some — otherwise absolutely rotten — nominees, because they’ve turned down so many, they’re beginning to look like partisan obstructionists.

    My take on it is that, if Bush keeps nominating unacceptables, the Senate has no alternative but shoot them down, but the Senate Dems will be Senate Dems… Only so much fire in their loins…

  • …if the Bible is true… it is true in all facets of human endeavor.

    Better to have this guy as a federal judge than, say, an umpire. He might just decide that the infield fly rule is unholy!

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