This blogmeister has a general policy of not saying the names of most judges, because their unpopular decisions might make them a target of violence on the part of people who might fanatically disagree with such decisions. This article references someone who used to be a Federal judge, and I will do everything but say his name.
The local MSM, in President Ford’s postmortem, have dug up a certain ex-Congressman from Missouri who happened to work with Gerald Ford on House committee work during the 1960s. While this person and Ford were of different political parties, this person highly respected Ford for his “integrity.”
Local MSM tells us that he was later appointed as a Federal district level judge for the Eastern Missouri circuit by President Jimmy Carter. But they leave it at that.
I’m here to tell you that, while this person served as a Federal judge, he made a very unpopular decision that had negative ramifications for several decades in the St. Louis region. With one bang of his gavel, he fueled the growth of St. Charles County, which continues to this day; though the issue this unnamed judge brought to the forefront of public debate has now died down, its negative consequences on St. Louis County will not soon be undone.
Which is why I’m sad that local MSM has felt it necessary to drag this person out of the woodwork.
[...] can say his name, and say that he was the person I was referring to back in late December that the local media made an object of praise, when he reacted to the death of Gerald Ford. At the time, since he was retired but not disgraced, I did not want to say his [...]