Prosecutors Seek Recusal of Entire 9th Circuit in Porn Appeal

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If they want to ban judges for having legal stuff, I want to ban judges that have anything legal that I don't agree with.

Prosecutors are seeking the recusal of every judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a pornography appeal because of an ethics investigation involving the circuit’s chief judge and his racy website.

Prosecutors say in their request that photos on Kozinski’s website "were at least thematically similar” to some of Isaacs’ videos, the Daily Journal story says.

http://www.abajournal.com/news/prose...n_porn_appeal/

[Toby]

Can you say witch hunt? I knew you could. {heavy sigh}

I'm not wild about Isaacs' content, but I'm getting real tired of prosecutors in this country using bullying tactics to unduly influence the court system to rule in their favor.

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Originally Posted by Toby

Can you say witch hunt? I knew you could. {heavy sigh}

I'm not wild about Isaacs' content, but I'm getting real tired of prosecutors in this country using bullying tactics to unduly influence the court system to rule in their favor.

It may be over soon.

I'm starting to see a few references that Obama is against net censorship.

A little more info from the defense side.

Just as the Department of Justice very cleverly obtained the recusal of Judge Kozinski the Government is now seeking recusal of the entire Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals," wrote Diamond in his "Opposition to Circuit Wide Recusal Notice." "With respect to the current suggestion by the Government that the entire Ninth Circuit recuse itself it is obvious that the Government wants to embarrass the Ninth Circuit by obtaining its recusal in this case."

"Defendant Isaacs opposes the recusal of the entire Ninth Circuit," Diamond continues. "If the Ninth Circuit were to do so, politics would enter into the selection of the replacement circuit judges. Not only would the selection of the replacement circuit judges be political, Defendant and Appellant Isaacs would be precluded from seeking a rehearing en banc because there apparently would be no mechanism for a full circuit court to entertain any such petition."

http://www.avn.com/law/articles/33283.html

And then we have this little tidbit near the end of the article.
"I think the Obscenity Unit is going to be disbanded once Obama takes over," Diamond told AVN.