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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/David_Sentelle">https://ballotpedia.org/David_Sentelle</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(50, 56, 61); padding: 10px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Professional_career" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Professional career</font></span></h2><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.6em 1.6em;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">2002-2009:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Adjunct professor, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">George Mason School of Law</span></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">1993:</span> Adjunct professor, Florida State University</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">1991-1992:</span> Visiting professor, University of North Carolina School of Law</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">1977-1985:</span> Attorney private practice, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">North Carolina</a></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">1977:</span> Visiting professor, University of North Carolina-Charlotte</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">1974-1977:</span> Judge, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Seventh_Division_of_the_Superior_Court,North_Carolina" class="mw-redirect" title="Seventh Division of the Superior Court, North Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Seventh Division of the Superior Court, North Carolina</a></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">1970-1974:</span> Assistant U.S. attorney, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Western_District_of_North_Carolina" class="mw-redirect" title="Western District of North Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Western District of North Carolina</a></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">1968-1970:</span> Attorney in private practice, North Carolina<span id="cite_ref-bio_1-2" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/David_Sentelle#cite_note-bio-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></span></font></li></ul><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(50, 56, 61); padding: 10px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Judicial_career" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judicial career</font></span></h2><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="District_of_Columbia_Circuit_Court_of_Appeals" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals</font></span></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sentelle was nominated to the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_District_of_Columbia_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit</a> by President <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Federal_judges_nominated_by_Ronald_Reagan" title="Federal judges nominated by Ronald Reagan" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Ronald Reagan</a> on <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/C1987#February" class="mw-redirect" title="C1987" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">February 2, 1987</a>, to a seat vacated by <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Antonin_Scalia" title="Antonin Scalia" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Antonin Scalia</a>, as Scalia was appointed Associate Justice of the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Supreme Court of the United States</a>. Sentelle was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/C1987#September" class="mw-redirect" title="C1987" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">September 9, 1987</a>, on a Senate vote and received commission on <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/C1987#September" class="mw-redirect" title="C1987" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">September 11, 1987</a>.<span id="cite_ref-bio_1-3" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/David_Sentelle#cite_note-bio-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></span> Sentelle served as the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Chief_Judge" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Judge" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Chief Judge</a> of the D.C. Circuit from 2008 until 2013. On February 12, 2013, Sentelle assumed senior status for the after serving on the court for 25 years.<span id="cite_ref-bio_1-4" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/David_Sentelle#cite_note-bio-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></span></font></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Western_District_of_North_Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Western District of North Carolina</font></span></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the recommendation of U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, Sentelle was nominated to the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Western_District_of_North_Carolina" title="United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina</a> by President <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Federal_judges_nominated_by_Ronald_Reagan" title="Federal judges nominated by Ronald Reagan" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Ronald Reagan</a> on <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/C1985#July" class="mw-redirect" title="C1985" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">July 25, 1985</a>, to a seat vacated by <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Woodrow_Jones" title="Woodrow Jones" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Woodrow Jones</a>. Sentelle was confirmed by the Senate on <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/C1985#October" class="mw-redirect" title="C1985" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">October 16, 1985</a>, and received commission on <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/C1985#October" class="mw-redirect" title="C1985" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">October 17, 1985</a>.<span id="cite_ref-bio_1-5" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/David_Sentelle#cite_note-bio-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></span></font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(50, 56, 61); padding: 10px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Noteworthy_cases" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Noteworthy_cases_coverage_at_Ballotpedia" title="Noteworthy cases coverage at Ballotpedia" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Noteworthy cases</font></a></span></h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span id="D.C.Circuit_strikes_down"conflict_minerals"rule_as_unconstitutional(2014)" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="mw-headline" id="D.C.Circuit_strikes_down.22conflict_minerals.22_rule_as_unconstitutional.282014.29" style="box-sizing: border-box;">D.C. Circuit strikes down "conflict minerals" rule as unconstitutional (2014)</span></font></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" />On April 14, 2014, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit, comprised of Judges Sentelle, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Srikanth_Srinivasan" title="Srikanth Srinivasan" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Srikanth Srinivasan</a> and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Arthur_Randolph" title="Arthur Randolph" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Arthur Randolph</a>, struck down a securities law concerning "conflict minerals" (i.e., minerals that were mined in central Africa), noting that the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rule violated the First Amendment. In the opinion, Judge Randolph wrote that “[b]y compelling an issuer to confess blood on its hands, the statute interferes with that exercise of freedom of speech under the First Amendment.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Articles:</span><small style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;" /><dl style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.6em 1.6em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059997868" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=") right center no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">E&E Publishing</span>, "Appeals court strikes down conflict minerals disclosure rule," April 14, 2014</a></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/14/conflict-minerals_n_5149033.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=") right center no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Huffington Post</span>, "Conflict Minerals Disclosure Rule Struck Down By Appeals Court," April 14, 2014</a></li></ul></dd></small></dl><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><small style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="Santa_Barbara_News-Press_labor_dispute(2012)" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="mw-headline" id="Santa_Barbara_News-Press_labor_dispute.282012.29" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Santa Barbara News-Press labor dispute (2012)</span></font></h3></span><dl style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;"><dl style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_District_of_Columbia_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit</a></span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">(<a target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/E9275A440CE6C94685257AD800537ECC/$file/11-1284-1410688.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif/15px-Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif") right center no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 16px;">Ampersand Publishing, LLC v. National Labor Relations Board, et al.</a>, 11-1284)</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></dd></dl></dd></dl><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judge Sentelle joined the unanimous opinion written by Judge <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Stephen_F.Williams" title="Stephen F. Williams" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Stephen F. Williams</a> overturning the decision of the National Labor Relations Board in Ampersand v. NLRB.<span id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/David_Sentelle#cite_note-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></span> Ampersand Publishing brought the case against the NLRB claiming that the NLRB unjustly assumed that workers had a statutory right to engage in collective actions. The panel vacated the NLRB's ruling and denied the agency the opportunity to cross-appeal.<span id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/David_Sentelle#cite_note-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></span></font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="Appointment_of_Ken_Starr_in_Whitewater_scandal(1994)" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="mw-headline" id="Appointment_of_Ken_Starr_in_Whitewater_scandal.281994.29" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Appointment of Ken Starr in Whitewater scandal (1994)</span></font></h3></span><dl style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;"><dl style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_District_of_Columbia_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit</a></span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">(<a target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CC8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.findlaw.com%2Fhdocs%2Fdocs%2Fclinton_hillary%2Fhillaryclinton_part_1.pdf&ei=QSu7UZyCDNPd4AOwtoDIBw&usg=AFQjCNGdmY2vKu3vkFDzRpaa4DtUXph4bQ&sig2=sEfpqzc3MS6Tx653YltTkg&bvm=bv.47883778,d.dmg&cad=rja" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=") right center no-repeat !important; padding-right: 13px !important;">In Re: Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan Association</a>, Division No. 94-1)</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></dd></dl></dd></dl><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judge Sentelle presided as part of a three-judge panel over the appointment of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kenneth_Starr" title="Kenneth Starr" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Kenneth Starr</a>, a <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Republican</a>, to be President <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Bill Clinton's</a> special prosecutor during the Whitewater scandal.<span id="cite_ref-IRC_4-0" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/David_Sentelle#cite_note-IRC-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></span></font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="Oliver_North_and_Iran-Contra_trial(1991)" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="mw-headline" id="Oliver_North_and_Iran-Contra_trial.281991.29" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Oliver North and Iran-Contra trial (1991)</span></font></h3></span><dl style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;"><dl style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_District_of_Columbia_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit</a></span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">(<a target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/910/910.F2d.843.89-3118.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=") right center no-repeat !important; padding-right: 13px !important;">United States, v. Oliver L. North</a>, 89-3118)</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></dd></dl></dd></dl><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judge Sentelle was part of a three-judge panel that included <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Douglas_Ginsburg" title="Douglas Ginsburg" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Douglas Ginsburg</a> and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Abner_Mikva" title="Abner Mikva" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Abner Mikva</a> which voted to vacate the criminal convictions of Oliver North and John Poindexter in the Iran-Contra scandal.<span id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/David_Sentelle#cite_note-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a></span></font></p></div></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">icn 820</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...<span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5cbcb007-7fff-6bfc-6d79-2307aee2f559" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Three months later, in June 2012<b>, Cuccinelli also lost his case seeking to overturn the Obama administration's endangerment finding on greenhouse gases.</b> Then Chief <b>Judge David Sentelle,</b> an appointee of President Ronald Reagan's, led </span><a href="https://casetext.com/case/coal-for-responsible-regulation-inc-v-envtl-prot-agency-3" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">the unanimous three-judge panel</a> of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px 138.594px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The judges dismissed Cuccinelli's argument—that the Obama EPA had improperly "delegated" its authority to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change by relying on its reports assessing the science—as "little more than a semantic trick.</b>"</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px 138.594px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"EPA simply did here what it and other decision-makers often must do to make a science-based judgment: it sought out and reviewed existing scientific evidence to determine whether a particular finding was warranted," the judges wrote in their decision, noting that the peer-reviewed assessments of the IPCC had synthesized the findings from more than 18,000 individual studies on climate change.</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">he upheld  his prev position in mass v epa</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.edf.org/news/dc-circuit-court-appeals-affirms-its-decision-uphold-historic-epa-actions-reduce-climate-pollut">https://www.edf.org/news/dc-circuit-court-appeals-affirms-its-decision-uphold-historic-epa-actions-reduce-climate-pollut</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DC. Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Its Decision to Uphold Historic EPA Actions to Reduce Climate Pollution, Protect Public Health</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>December 20, 2012</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(Washington, DC – December 20, 2012) <b>Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit refused petitions to rehear a landmark carbon pollution case — once again affirming the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) clean air measures to protect Americans’ health and well-being from climate-disrupting pollution.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The three-judge panel of the court heard the cases in June. Today, the court refused petitions requesting that the entire court rehear the challenges sitting en banc.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The panel opinion that was the subject of the rehearing petition dismissed challenges to the Climate Pollution Endangerment Finding and the Clean Car Standards as well as the Timing and Tailoring Rules (see below for details on the cases).</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In the original panel opinion by Chief Judge David Sentelle, appointed to the Court by President Ronald Reagan,and Circuit Judges Judith Rogers and David Tatel, the court held EPA’s interpretation of the nation’s clean air laws was “unambiguously correct.”</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The panel opinion also stated that, “[F]or the reasons set forth below, we conclude: 1) the Endangerment Finding and Tailpipe Rule are neither arbitrary nor capricious; 2) EPA’s interpretation of the governing CAA provisions is unambiguously correct; and 3) no petitioner has standing to challenge the Timing and Tailoring Rules. We thus dismiss for lack of jurisdiction all petitions for review of the Timing and Tailoring Rules, and deny the remainder of the petitions.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Today, Judges Sentelle, Rogers, and Tatel issued a statement concurring in the Court’s decision not to rehear the case en banc</b>. That statement points to the clear law and binding precedent of the United States Supreme Court, and says, “<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Here, Congress spoke clearly, EPA fulfilled its statutory responsibilities, and the panel, playing its limited role, gave effect to the statute’s plain meaning …To be sure, the stakes here are high. The underlying policy questions and the outcome of this case are undoubtedly matters of exceptional importance. The legal issues presented, however, are straightforward, requiring no more than the application of clear statutes and binding Supreme Court precedent. There is no cause for en banc review.</span>”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), together with a large coalition of states and environmental organizations, intervened in defense of the vital clean air protections at stake in this litigation.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“America’s clean air laws are clear; EPA has the authority and the responsibility to address the carbon pollution that has profound consequences for our nation’s health, safety and prosperity,” said Vickie Patton, General Counsel of Environmental Defense Fund. “It is now time for EPA to address the dangerous carbon pollution that comes from power plants by working with the dozens of states that have forged common sense clean energy solutions, as well as the numerous businesses that asked the President to carry out cost-saving energy efficiency solutions in reducing carbon pollution, and the communities across our nation afflicted by the clear and present danger of extreme weather that’s linked to climate change.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The lawsuits and petitions for rehearing were brought by major industrial polluters and states such as Texas.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The cases in question include:</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Climate Pollution Endangerment Finding — in which EPA, following the Supreme Court’s order in Massachusetts v. EPA, determined that climate pollution endangers human health and welfare on the basis of a rigorous review of the extensive body of climate science.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Clean Car Standards — which establish cost-saving fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions standards for passenger cars and light trucks. The standards are supported by U.S. auto makers and the United Auto Workers union, among others. They will save Americans thousands of dollars at the gas pump by enabling families to get more mileage out of each gallon of gas. They will also help break our nation’s addiction to imported oil and will cut the amount of dangerous pollution from vehicles.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Carbon Pollution Limits for Big New Power Plants and Industrial Sources (the Timing and Tailoring Rules) — in which EPA is phasing-in requirements for use of the best available cost-effective pollution controls, starting with new, large industrial emitters (like power plants) while shielding smaller emitters.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The U.S. auto makers and a dozen states (California, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington) intervened in defense of EPA’s clean car standards (the second case listed above).</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“EPA’s reasonable steps to reduce climate pollution will help secure a safe and prosperous future for our country.” said EDF’s outside legal counsel Sean Donahue, who presented oral arguments to the three judge panel in defense of these protections. “Today’s court ruling will help our country move forward toward the clean energy economy of the future.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You can read more about the cases and the parties involved, find the court briefs, and get more information on our website.</font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Greenwire: Monday, February 27, <b>2012</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If the importance and complexity of a court case can be established based on the number of lawyers at the lectern, then the battle over the Obama administration greenhouse gas regulations is of epic proportions.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When the three interlinked cases are argued over two days at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit this week, no fewer than 18 different attorneys will advocate for their clients before the three-judge panel.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By contrast, a typical appeals court argument over a U.S. EPA regulation usually takes less than an hour and tends to involve no more than a handful of attorneys.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The Lineup</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The lawyers for the Obama administration, industry groups, states and environmental organizations who will be facing off in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit tomorrow and Wednesday over the lawfulness of EPA's greenhouse gas regulations.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tuesday</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><b>The endangerment finding rule</b></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Challengers</b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Defenders</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">E. Duncan Getchell Jr.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">solicitor general, Virginia</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Patrick R. Day</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Holland & Hart, for Coalition for Responsible Regulation</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Jeffery Bossert Clark</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Kirkland & Ellis, for U.S. Chamber of Commerce</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Harry W. MacDougald</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Caldwell & Watson, for Southeastern Legal Foundation, et al.</b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jon M. Lipshultz & Angeline Purdy</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Justice Department, for EPA.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Carol A. Iancu</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Attorney General's Office, for <b>Massachusetts</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The tailpipe rule</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Challengers<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Defenders</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Peter S. Glaser</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Troutman Sanders, for National Mining Association, Peabody Energy and American Farm Bureau Federation</b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Eric Hostetler</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Justice Department, for EPA</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Raymond B. Ludwiszewski</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, for Alliance of Automobile Mfgs and Global Automakers</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gavin Geraghty McCabe</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Attorney General's Office, for California</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wednesday</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Timing and tailoring rules</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Challengers<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Defenders</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jonathan Franklin Mitchell</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>solicitor general, for Texas</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Peter Keisler</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sidley Austin, for National Association of Manufacturers, et al.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>F. William Brownell</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Hunton & Williams, for Utility Air Regulatory Group</b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Perry M. Rosen & Amanda Shafer Berman</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">for EPA</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Michael J. Myers</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">New York Attorney General's Office, for states</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sean H. Donahue</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Law Office of Sean Donahue, for environmental groups</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Historic regulations</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Challengers<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Defenders</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Peter Keisler</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sidley Austin, for petitioners<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Perry M. Rosen & Amanda Shafer Berman</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Justice Department, for EPA</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sean H. Donahue</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Law Office of Sean Donahue, for environmental groups</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Source: Court papers, the parties.]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In addition to the 18 attorneys who will actually speak -- representing EPA, industry groups, states and environmental organizations -- there are dozens behind the scenes who have been working on the litigation.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"This is one of the most complex and consequential sets of cases in the history of environmental law," said Michael Gerrard, director of the Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School. "It involves not just one project, industry or regulation, but a whole structure of interlocking regulations that affect broad swaths of the economy."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There are four principal rules under the legal microscope before the court, although two, the "timing" and "tailoring" rules, have been consolidated into one case.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Arguments over the "endangerment" rule, which focuses on EPA's initial decision in which it held that greenhouse gases are harmful</b>, and the "tailpipe" rule, which adopts new standards for car and light-truck emissions, will be argued tomorrow.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The arguments on the consolidated challenges to the timing and tailoring rule will be heard Wednesday, along with a separate challenge to EPA's existing regulations concerning the long-standing regulation of stationary sources, which petitioners say should not be applied to greenhouse gases or various other pollutants.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The timing rule required that new controls of greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources would be triggered on Jan. 2, 2011, the day that new motor vehicle standards went into effect.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The tailoring rule interprets the Clean Air Act in such a way that only major polluters are required to obtain permits for greenhouse gas emissions. That rule is considered the most vulnerable to legal attack because EPA was forced to effectively rewrite the Clean Air Act in order to prevent the regulations from applying to nonindustrial sources like schools and apartment buildings.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Herding cats</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It is an old joke that getting lawyers to agree on anything is like herding cats, but that is exactly what those involved had to do in order to figure out who was going to argue what over the two days.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This was likely more a problem for the various industry groups and several states challenging the rules, simply because there were so many of them sitting around the table, ranging from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers to the American Petroleum Institute and the states of Texas and Virginia.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Asked how they coordinated, one lawyer involved, who declined to be named, said: "A lot of meetings and conversations boiling down what issues needed to be argued and then trying to decide who would get what."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ultimately, "it wound up being really one lawyer from each of the main parties interested in each of the issues," he added.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Discussions were similar for the environmental groups and the states that intervened in defense of the rule, according to Sean Donahue, who will be arguing Wednesday on behalf of the groups.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We did work closely in deciding who was going to argue," he said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One question the various lawyers agreed upon was that an attorney from Massachusetts should argue in defense of the endangerment finding. That's because Massachusetts was a key player in the litigation that led to the 2007 Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA, in which the justices ruled for the first time that greenhouse gases were a pollutant and could therefore be regulated under the Clean Air Act. The decision led directly to the endangerment finding.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a similar vein, it made sense for a lawyer representing California -- which has been particularly active in regulating vehicle emissions -- to argue over the tailpipe rule, Donahue said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Donahue's side also had discussions with the Obama administration's lawyers about how they could be of assistance, he added.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It was up to the administration to cede some of its argument time in order for the environmental groups and states in favor of the rules to have any say at argument.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We talked to them, and they agreed to the argument time," Donahue said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ceremonial courtroom</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">As previously reported in Greenwire, the three judges presiding over the litigation have a history when it comes to both environmental cases in general and, more specifically, greenhouse gases.</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">They are <b>Chief Judge David Sentelle</b>, a conservative appointed by President Reagan, and two Clinton appointees: Judges Judith Rogers and David Tatel.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Sentelle and Tatel were both on the panel that considered Massachusetts v. EPA before the case ended up at the Supreme Court </b>(Greenwire, Nov. 3, 2011).</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The court ruled 2-1 against states that were seeking EPA action on global warming. Sentelle was in the majority,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> while Tatel was the dissenter.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When the massed ranks of attorneys congregate at the U.S. courthouse on Constitution Avenue in Washington tomorrow morning, the three judges will hear the arguments in a ceremonial courtroom that is much bigger than the more cramped space they normally use. Even that isn't thought to be big enough to accommodate all of those who want to tune in.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Donahue said that based on the lawyers lined up on both sides, the two-day argument will be worth watching.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"They are experienced, talented, able attorneys," he said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As Daniel Farber, an environmental law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, noted, while it may be unusual for so many lawyers to be arguing, there's an obvious reason why.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"That seems like a lot of lawyers to me," he said. "But of course the challengers are raising a lot of issues."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">judge who ruled that Obama’s recess appointments violated the constitution is a <b style="">Jesse Helms crony</b> who overturned the convictions of Oliver and John Poindexter and sided with Bush on indefinite detentions.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Judge David Bryan Sentelle was first </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">appointed to the bench by Ronald Reagan</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Sentelle history of right wing activism from the bench was detailed by </span><a href="http://www.stableytimes.com/featured/judge-who-ruled-against-obamas-recess-appointments-has-long-list-of-ties-to-republican-party-shenanigans-dating-back-to-oliver-north/1122/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Will Stabley</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, “However, Sentelle was promoted to the United States Appeals Court shortly after, as a circuit court judge, he </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">voted to overturn the convictions of Oliver North and John Poindexter – two key Reagan aides who had been found guilty in the Iran Contra scandal. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This seeming tit for tat between Sentelle continued as he </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">appointed Kenneth Starr</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to the role which Starr would go on to use in his overtly aggressive impeachment case against democrat Bill Clinton…Sentelle then went on to side with republican George W. Bush on the issue of indefinite detention without the right to trial, in a controversial ruling which saw even a fellow judge on his own panel dissenting against him.”</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sentelle has been <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/02/21/304361/-David-B-Sentelle-rightwing-hack-judge-denies-habeas-corpus" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">described as a crony of Jesse Helms</a>. He is also a member of the Federalist Society a group that describes <a href="http://www.fed-soc.org/aboutus/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">itself and its role as</a>, “Law schools and the legal profession are currently strongly dominated by a form of orthodox liberal ideology which advocates a centralized and uniform society. While some members of the academic community have dissented from these views, by and large they are taught simultaneously with (and indeed as if they were) the law. The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order. It is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and<b> duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.</b> The Society seeks both to promote an awareness of these principles and to further their application through its activities.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BuzzFlash Editor's Blog</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mark Karlin, Editor and Publisher, BuzzFlash.com</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">As we mentioned in our first BuzzFlash Editor's Blog on November 12, stick with us for awhile as we see how this new addition to BuzzFlash unfolds. I'll be suprised as you will be, and I'm the one writing it.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So for our first series of entries, I am focusing on</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b style=""> David Sentelle, the Zelig of GOP Bush Neo-Confederate, Partisan hack federal judges</b>. He seems to be at the center of so many rulings that have helped shape the destruction of justice, protect the GOP, and dismantle a secular democracy. We started with a brief introduction to just three of his pivotal judicial roles <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/articles/editorblog/001" style="">yesterday in our first entry</a>.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Today, we are continuing to blog about Sentelle -- and we will be getting to his judicial twin, Judge Laurence Silberman (yes, who Bush had co-chair the "The Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction," which whitewashed Bush and Cheney.). Just be patient. More on Silberman, who played a role in trying to impeach Bill Clinton while he was sitting on the D.C. Appellate Court and ruling on motions related to the impeachment process, down the road.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">But today, let's continue on in our journey into the hijacking of our federal judiciary and Constitution by the GOP as we continue to explore the life and times of Judge David Sentelle.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">November 13, 2007</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since even BuzzFlash readers are inundated with so much information, they forget many of the details of the Republican assault on the vision of the founding fathers of this nation, we thought that we would begin today with an excerpt of a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050620074045/www.buzzflash.com/editorial/05/05/edi05049.html" target="_blank" style="">BuzzFlash editorial from May 23, 2005.</a> It is entitled "<span class="art-title">The War for American Constitutional Democracy," and concerns the then threatened (but never materialized, of course) Democratic filibuster on another partisan hack Bush appointment to the federal bench. (Remember when then Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist was boasting that he would drop the "nuclear bomb" and have the GOP minority eliminate the filibuster? No need for that. The Democratic leadership is too wimpy to try such a bold move as standing up for principle.)</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="art-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here is an excerpt from what we had to say then about what the Republicans have been doing to achieve their goals to undermine the Constitution by filling the official ranks with party loyalists:</font></span></p><blockquote style=""><p style=""><span class="art-title" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">One of the most effective judges in implementing partisan Republican policies from the federal bench has been David Sentelle. He is like th<b style="">e Zelig of GOP judicial activism</b> -- from appointing Ken Starr to exonerating Ollie North and Admiral Poindexter, from letting Dick Cheney keep the publics' energy papers secret to approving Bush secret search warrants:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> the guy seems to show up everywhere the GOP needs a judicial hatchet man. 
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>According to the book "The Hunting of the President," in an article written while he was on the U.S. Appeals Court, Sentelle "accused 'leftist heretics' of scheming to turn the United States into 'a collectivist, egalitarian, materialistic, race-conscious, hyper-secular, and socially permissive state.'</b>" This is not Ann Coulter, who makes her living out of outrageous and often violent comments about liberals; this is a federal judge who played a key role in passing out Iran-Contra "get out of jail cards" and set-up the impeachment of Bill Clinton. He is similar to those historical revisionist wingers who claim that Hitler was really a leftist. </span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A book BuzzFlash sold last year was entitled "Take Them at Their Words." Only a fool wouldn't. </span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They use the language of psychotics and violence, of the Inquisition and the Salem Witch Trials. </span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They are serious. And more of them are coming on the bench.</span></font></span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="art-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And just a couple of weeks ago, the chronically Bush-enabling Dianne Feinstein made it possible for another one of them, Leslie Southwick, to join his fellow hacks as a federal judge when she was the only Democrat to vote for his confirmation with the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="art-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But back to our case study, David Sentelle.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="art-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As you can see from the quotation in our excerpt, Sentelle's core beliefs amount to a Rush Limbaugh rant on a day when he is in his uber-demagogue mode. And remember Sentelle "accused 'leftist heretics' of scheming to turn the United States into 'a collectivist, egalitarian, materialistic, race-conscious, hyper-secular, and socially permissive state" while sitting as an active judge on the D.C. Court of Appeals!</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="art-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To understand Sentelle a bit, you need to know his origins and chief political sponsor.</font></span></p><p style=""><span class="art-title" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sentelle is a former North Carolina GOP state party official and attorney (Mecklenburg County Republican Chairman in 1979-1980). </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He was a Jesse Helms protege. Helms got Reagan's people to appoint Sentelle to the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. Ironically, when his wing nut soulmate, Antonin Scalia, was appointed to the Supreme Court, Sentelle was "moved up" to the D.C. Appellate Court to succeed him there. </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It should be noted that former NC Senator Lauch Faircloth -- who John Edwards defeated in 1998 -- was also an active promoter of Sentelle and played a role in Sentelle's appointment of Ken Starr for the purpose of finding a legal toehold to impeach Bill Clinton.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">)</span></font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="art-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That was in 1987, which makes it 20 years that Sentelle has been wreaking havoc on the Constitution and protecting the backside of Republican Administrations, while assisting the effort to bring down a Democratic president in the 8-year interview between GOP control of the White House.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="art-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We'll close this BuzzFlash Editor's Blog entry with just one example of the "minor" damage Sentelle has done in his rulings, based on his right wing extremist Jesse Helms style agenda.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="art-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As a <em>New York Times</em> article <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E4DC1F31F931A15752C1A962958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print" style="">reported on November 22, 1994,</a> <b>Sentelle played a key Appellate Court panel role in reversing a ruling that would have protected endangered species based on the destruction of their habitat.</b> The <em>Times</em> entitled their report, "Appellate Ruling Called a Threat to Endangered Species Act." The article ended with this, "The judge who reversed himself in March was Judge Stephen F. Williams. Voting both times to protect the habitat was Chief Judge Abner J. Mikva, while Judge David B. Sentelle voted against extending such protection."</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="art-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yes, David B. Sentelle is rock solid against protecting endangered species, but it is democracy and the Constitution that he endangers the most.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="art-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More to come on this tomorrow....</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BuzzFlash Editor's Blog</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ON ON FEBRUARY 27, <b>2012 </b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">After Massachusetts v. EPA, where the Supreme Court held that greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act, EPA has carried out its responsibility to control these harmful pollutants, with higher fuel economy standards that have rejuvenated the auto industry and technology standards for new power plants. “EPA’s common sense solutions have been attacked in a flood of litigation by some of the largest polluters in our nation,” EDF explains. Beginning Tuesday, “the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear two days of arguments” on four cases involving challenges to those rules.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">UPDATE</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“The list of petitioners includes <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">coal-burning utilities, coal companies</span> and affiliated <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">trade associations, oil companies, trade groups</span> for steel, cement and homebuilders, agribusiness interests, organizations that deny the science of climate change and Republican politicians connected with the Tea Party,</b>” InsideClimate News reports.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">might do the right thing on EPA GHG?</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><h1 class="headline" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Mean right hook: Conservative judge deals blow to polluters in climate trial</font></h1><p class="byline" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 21.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By <a href="http://grist.org/author/josh-israel/" title="Posts by Josh Israel" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Josh Israel</a> 29 <b>feb 2012</b></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">cross-posted from <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/02/29/434698/appeals-court-panel-rebuffs-polluters-epa-greenhouse-rules/" style="">ThinkProgress Green</a>.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2009, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce called for the “<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/green/2009/08/25/174408/chamber-scopes-climate-trial/">Scopes monkey trial</a> of the 21st century” to question the scientific fact of human-made climate change.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia began consideration of a <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/02/27/432875/court-hears-industry-challenges-to-carbon-pollution-rules-this-week/">landmark case</a> that consolidates a series of challenges to Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2009 finding that greenhouse gases are a threat to public health and welfare and its related rule-makings. <b>The cases, brought by energy companies, industry front groups, Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas), and others, seek to stop the EPA from regulating greenhouse pollution. Their legal argument is that <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/02/27/433414/legal-case-against-epa-greenhouse-endangerment-finding-man-made-climate-change-is-not-certain/">climate science is a hoax</a>.</b></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">But the three-judge panel’s questions and comments during the first day of oral arguments showed </span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204520204577251743109792540.html"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">enormous skepticism</span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"> of the industry arguments</span>. Acknowledging that by law, the panel must show deference to the EPA’s finding, the chief judge told one of the challenger’s lawyers: “You seem to be asking us to determine that the EPA is incorrect, but that is not the standard,” and even that “would not be enough to win the case for you.” Other arguments were similarly <a href="http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2012/02/28/day-one-of-landmark-clean-air-cases-a-report-from-the-courtroom/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+environmentaldefense%2Fclimate411+%28Climate+411%29">pooh-poohed</a> by the panel.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Perhaps more significant for the EPA — and the Earth’s climate — is the fact that the chief judge is hardly a liberal lion. <b>David B. Sentelle, a Ronald Reagan appointee, was a <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=19940818&id=cIhOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8xQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6472,978271">protege of the late arch-conservative Sen. Jesse Helms </a>(R-N.C.).</b> Best known as the person who <a href="http://www.observer.com/1999/04/ditch-ken-starr-not-the-office/">installed Ken Starr as the independent council</a> to investigate the Whitewater scandal (and President Clinton’s sex life) and who wrote the opinion <a href="http://openjurist.org/16/f3d/1234/in-re-oliver-l-north-et-al">overturning the conviction of Oliver North</a>, Sentelle has a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/c/carville-horse.html">reputation</a> [sub. req.] as one of the most right-wing judges in the federal court system. The other two judges on the panel were both appointed by a Democrat, President Bill Clinton.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The comments are not, of course, a formal ruling, but are certainly a strong indicator that the panel is unlikely to <b>reject the EPA’s scientific finding that greenhouse gases are a threat.</b></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The challengers involved with the cases include:</font></p>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Industry front groups and trade associations</strong>

–<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Coalition for Responsible Regulation, Inc. rep by law firm ----</span>

–Industrial Minerals Association – North America

–National <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Cattlemen’s Beef Association

–National Mining Association</span>

–SIP/FIP Advocacy Group

–<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Utility Air Regulatory Group</span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Coal and energy companies</strong>

–<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.

–Peabody Energy</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Company</span>

–Great Northern Project Development, L.P.

–Rosebud Mining Company</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><strong>Republican-led state governments</strong>

–State of Texas</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">

–State of Wyoming</span></font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">Perhaps realizing that the law is not on their side, some of these industry groups have simultaneously taken a legislative approach to fighting EPA regulations, pushing for enactment of<b> HR 910, the “</b></span><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.00910:"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"><b>Energy Tax Prevention Act</b></span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"><b>.” The bill, sponsored by Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), would take away the EPA’s regulatory power over greenhouse gases</b>. The Republican House endorsed the proposal last April, </span><a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll249.xml"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">mostly along party lines</span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">, but the measure has stalled in the Democratic Senate. The Industrial Minerals Association, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, National Mining Association, and Peabody Energy Company all reported lobbying on the bill in 2011 — part of their combined $9.8 million lobbying efforts on this and other subjects.</span></font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Josh Israel is a senior investigative reporter for <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/author/jisrael/">ThinkProgress</a> at the<b> Center for American Progress</b> Action Fund.</font></p>

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<a href="http://grist.org/climate-policy/mean-right-hook-conservative-judge-deals-blow-to-polluters-in-climate-trial/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://grist.org/climate-policy/mean-right-hook-conservative-judge-deals-blow-to-polluters-in-climate-trial/</font></a>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">lunched w/ helms before starr named?</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Improprieties in gaining the office of independent counsel:</b>

Starr was appointed by conservative judge David Sentelle's panel immediately after Sentelle had a lunch with Jesse Helms and Lauch Faircloth, North Carolina's right-wing, Clinton-hating senators.
<b>Judge Sentelle's wife went to work for Senator Faircloth's office five months after Starr's appointment.</b>
When the Justice Department considered Ken Starr for Independent Prosecutor, Starr failed to admit numerous conflicts of interest.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Myth: Ken Starr's investigation was ethical and fair.

</b>1. Sixty of these points are taken from James Carville, "Sixty Reasons Why I Don't Trust Ken Starr's Investigation," ...And the Horse He Rode In On (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), pp. 143-147.</font>

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<b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SCAIFE</font></b>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Money from the Pittsburgh billionaire's foundations also supported three conservative organizations prominently associated without he Jones case.  Between 1988 and 1996, nearly a million dollars in Scaife funds had been lavished on the<b> Landmark Legal Foundation,</b> an organization based in Kansas City and Washington which litigated on behalf of right-wing causes.  Well over half a million dollars had been doled out to the Independent Women's Forum since 1994, when its leaders engaged Starr to write a brief on Jones' behalf.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another million or so had subsidized th<b>e Federalist Society, established as a national legal fraternity during the Reagan era.  It acted as a clearinghouse for clerkships with conservative judges, policy forums, and a right-wing political network.  Its roster of members and patrons included many of the most prominent Republican judges, attorneys, and legal scholars, including Kenneth Starr and<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Judge David Sentelle</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">,</span> the presiding judge of the Special Division that had appointed Starr.)  Certain of its members, including Starr, had provided a great deal of high-priced legal advice to Jones for free.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://blog.buzzflash.com/editorblog/004</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the Zelig of </font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">November 12, 2007</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ever since reading "The Hunting of the President" by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons, BuzzFlash has been fascinated by the impact one Reagan federal appointee has had on the course of this nation's political history.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His name is<b> David Sentelle </b>-- and he is still doing damage as was revealed by a ruling just a short time ago upholding the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld travesty of justice: <a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iprss5PWV0qZgZsj8KdwYGgOdDyQD8SOB7080" target="_blank">military tribunals in Guantanamo for detainees</a>.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sentelle has had a destructive impact on democracy and justice without parallel, considering his longevity on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We have called David Sentelle the <b>Zelig of partisan GOP judges.</b></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over the next couple of postings, we will be talking a bit more about Sentelle (who we have covered in the past on BuzzFlash). But for the moment, let's recap just three of his key party line judicial decisions:</font></p>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He was a key vote in the appellate panel that overturned the felony conviction of <b>Oliver North and John Poindexter </b>for their roles in the illegal Iran-Contra operation.</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He was the judge who appointed Ken Starr to oversee the effort to impeach Bill Clinton. William Rehnquist, then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, had placed Sentelle as the judge overseeing the Clinton special prosecuto<b>r. When Robert Fiske, a respected non-partisan prosecutor, was ready to exonerate the Clintons, Jesse Helms stepped in and asked Sentelle -- his protege -- to get rid of Fisk and appoint the GOP lapdog, Ken Star</b>r, to take over the Republican hit job on Bill Clinton. Sentelle did as he was told.</font></li>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When a special prosecutor was needed to investigate if George Herbert Walker Bush had abused his office by having the State Department search through Bill Clinton's passport application during the 1992 campaign, Sentelle appointed the partisan Republican former prosecutor Joseph DiGenova (<a href="http://www.digenovatoensing.com/">husband and law partner</a> of the FOX talking point attorney, Victoria Toensing). DiGenova's job was, we assume, to clear Poppy Bush and everyone on his staff of any improprieties. Case Closed.</font></li>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We'll be blogging a bit more about Sentelle and the devastating impact of the Republican assault on the judiciary -- by and large enabled by Democratic senators who defect and vote to confirm unqualified GOP loyalists.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No, the Sentelle story is not the kind that you read about in the rush of news soundbites, but it is a model of how the partisan GOP hacks appointed by Reagan, Bush and Bush will leave a destructive legacy for decades to come.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">part 2 missing, even on wayback</font>

<span class="submitted"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Submitted by mark karlin on Thu, 11/15/2007 - 7:23am.</font></span></p>

<li class="first last taxonomy_term_43"><a href="http://blog.buzzflash.com/editorblog" rel="tag" title="Get Buzzed: Commentary from Mark Karlin, Editor and Publisher of BuzzFlash.com" class="taxonomy_term_43"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">EditorBlog</font></a></li>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">This is my third entry on David Sentelle, the Zelig of partisan GOP judges on the federal court.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You can read the second entry by clicking <a href="http://blog.buzzflash.com/articles/articles/editorblog/002">here </a>and then following that back to the first entry by clicking <a href="http://blog.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/001" target="blank">here</a>.<a href="http://blog.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/001" target="blank"> </a></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why am I focusing on one judge (and I will also be discussing Sentelle's GOP sidekick, Senior Judge Laurence Silberman) when there are so many other timely issues at hand?</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is precisely because of the flood of "news" that the devastating effect of the strategic effort to ramrod a right wing judicial branch down the throat of democracy goes largely unnoticed.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Simply put, the mainstream media reports rulings, but rarely, if ever, connects the dots.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Through even a cursory examination of the 20-year career of Sentelle on the D.C. Court of Appeals -- and his mysterious role in particularly key decisions regarding Republican administrations -- we can begin to see how the GOP extremists have accomplished their goal of consolidating power by controlling the federal courts, particularly in regards to the crucial D.C. Court of Appeals.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b>It is vitally important to remember that the D.C. Court of Appeals is not like any other federal court. Because of its location in the nation's capital, it hears the most significant cases relating to governmental powers and the culpability of administration officials.</b></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">November 14, 2007</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A few years back we conducted interviews with journalists Joe Conason and David Brock.  Brock, as you know, is the right wing journalist who "came in from the wrong."  In short, he had an awakening and moved from being a shill for the efforts to slander and impeach Clinton to becoming the founder and head of "Media Matters," which debunks misinformation in the primarily pro-Republican world of the corporate media.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With both of them, we discussed the curious matter as to how David Sentelle came to appoint and oversee Ken Starr as the Independent Counsel who was given the mandate by the right wing to find something, anything, on which to base impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton.  It was an effort to conduct a coup through a seemingly legitimate legal process.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the problem was that the Counsel overseeing the Clinton investigations in the early '90s, the respected <a href="http://www.dpw.com/lawyers/bio/fiske.htm" target="_blank">Robert Fiske</a>, absolved Bill and Hillary and was ready to close down shop. </font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To right wingers such as Jesse Helms and William Rehnquist, this was unacceptable.  They were going to have Clinton's head on a platter and they needed the semblance of a legal process to accomplish their goal.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That is where Sentelle comes in, who always seems to curiously appear whenever the GOP needs a reliable "go-to" judge who knows his marching orders.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We think a long excerpt from a <a href="http://blog.buzzflash.com/interviews/2002/05/29_David_Brock.html" target="_blank">May 29, 2002, interview with David Brock</a> will offer some more insight on Sentelle's crucial role in facilitating the "project" to impeach Bill Clinton:</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVID BROCK: There's also the issue of Rehnquist's appointment of David Sentelle to head that three-judge panel that chose to appoint Ken Starr as the independent counsel.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BUZZFLASH: Well, I wanted to ask you about that, because you did write about that in your book. And that seems to me a key point which we have brought up on BuzzFlash from time to time. But I think it's one of those obscure details that people tend to forget. And, yet, it is so key to understanding the political nature of the way that the Republicans view the Court as just another vehicle for achieving their political goals.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVID BROCK: Which are what they always accuse liberal Democrats of doing. But I think if you look at the history, it's pretty clear that that's a case of projection from the conservatives, because it's exactly what they're doing. And a lot of it is done through the Federalist Society.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BUZZFLASH: The Republicans are really the ones who are using the courts to intervene and to be a very activist court.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVID BROCK: That's right.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BUZZFLASH: What happened with Robert Fiske, the first special counsel to "investigate" Clinton?</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVID BROCK: Well, Fiske was a moderate Republican and never trusted by conservatives of the Federalist Society. And you'll remember that there were some preliminary conclusions by Fiske. One of the first things he looked into was Vince Foster's death. There had been a lot of conspiracy-mongering among the right-wing raising questions about whether, in fact, it was a suicide. And Fiske really laid that to rest and said that it was simply a suicide. The conservatives were unhappy with that. And I think that was a sign to them that Fiske wasn't going to do the job the way they wanted it to be done.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And so you saw, by the spring and early summer of '94, an effort in the conservative press to discredit Fiske, particularly on the Wall Street Journal editorial page. And so the drumbeat started. And then there was an opportunity, because the independent counsel statute had lapsed. When that law was reauthorized, there was an opportunity to either re-appoint Fiske under the reauthorized statute, or to essentially fire him and replace him. And that decision was made by the three-judge panel that David Sentelle headed.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Sentelle was himself kind of an odd choice to head that panel because that designation usually goes to someone with more seniority.</b> And Sentelle was known -- and this was explained to me by one of his colleagues on the Circuit Court of Appeals -- as someone who would sometimes provide useful cover for the political machinations of others. And so I think that maybe one of the factors as to why he was chosen for that position. He had named his daughter Reagan, and was a staunch conservative. He also was involved in politics in North Carolina with Jesse Helms.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BUZZFLASH: So we have Sentelle heading a special three-judge panel that oversees the independent counsel, even though he's a junior member, over someone more senior. And Starr's appointment means that he will be the key player in the ramifications of the Supreme Court decision to allow the Paula Jones suit to go ahead. Tellingly, the person who appointed David Sentelle, over a more senior member of the three-judge panel, is none other than Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVID BROCK: Right. And Sentelle appointed someone for the independent counsel who is known as a Republican partisan, Ken Starr. This was not known, but Starr had already, at that point, talked about making a bid for the Senate from Virginia as a Republican. As we mentioned, he also considered filing the friend-of-the-court brief in the Jones case, but didn't do that. But he was talking to the Jones lawyers. And later, there was Congressional testimony where Sentelle essentially conceded that he had chosen Starr because he was a political opponent of the President. I think it's fair to say the Fiske inquiry was going to be, wrapped up in short order, rather than dragged out the way Starr did for years in this.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BUZZFLASH: So once again, we have a political process where Judge Sentelle, who is appointed by Rehnquist to head this panel, oversees the independent counsel. Judge Sentelle yanks Fiske out and puts in a replacement that is obviously going to pursue the case against Clinton to satisfy the right-wing, because they wouldn't be satisfied if Clinton was absolved. And that's exactly what Starr did.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVID BROCK: That's right. And they chose someone who was very politically ambitious. They knew what they were doing.<span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">* * *</span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tomorrow, we will return to an interview we conducted with Joe Conason and see the use of Sentelle as a tool to advance a "silent" right wing coup using impeachment from another set of eyes.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But before we sign off of the BuzzFlash editor's blog for the day, we wanted to remind you that Sentelle is still actively doing his partisan work on the D.C. Court of Appeals.  We have mentioned that he played crucial roles in protecting Bush on FISA issues, protecting Cheney on the energy task force disclosure issue, and upholding a parallel system of "justice" at Guantanamo (and elsewhere by extenstion).</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beyond the directly political issues that he has had a hand in, Sentelle has been an avid proponent of right wing Federalist Society goals. For example, in a 1998 speech (sponsored by a student Federalist Society chapter) at the University of Houston, Sentelle derided affrimative action. </font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A 1998 <a href="http://www.thedailycougar.com/static/vol63/88/News1/8821098/8821098.html" target="_blank">article from the student newspaper</a> notes, "<b>As to whether the 'question of equal protection' was yet solved, Sentelle said, 'Only time will tell. We are approaching equal protection at last.'"</b></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What Sentelle meant by this is that he was working hard to strike down minority protection and affirmative action laws in order to protect the "rights" of white people. </font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One judge, 20 partisan years of wrecking our democracy and undermining justice.</font>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mark Karlin, Editor and Publisher, BuzzFlash.com</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">This is my fourth entry on David Sentelle, the Zelig of partisan GOP judges on the federal court.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You can read the third entry by clicking <a href="http://blog.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/003" target="blank">here</a>; the second entry by clicking <a href="http://blog.buzzflash.com/articles/articles/editorblog/002">here</a>; and then following that back to the first entry by clicking <a href="http://blog.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/001" target="blank">here</a>.<a href="http://blog.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/001" target="_blank"> </a></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Through even a cursory examination of the 20-year career of Sentelle on the D.C. Court of Appeals -- and his mysterious role in particularly key decisions regarding Republican administrations -- we can begin to see how the GOP extremists have accomplished their goal of consolidating power by controlling the federal courts, particularly in regards to the crucial D.C. Court of Appeals.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">It is vitally important to remember that the D.C. Court of Appeals is not like any other federal court. Because of its location in the nation's capital, it hears the most significant cases relating to governmental powers and the culpability of administration officials.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">November 15, 2007</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We mentioned in yesterday's installment that we would return to an interview we conducted with Joe Conason, one of our favorite journalists and co-author of the seminal work ("The Hunting of the President") on how the Republicans undermined democracy through their long-term, synchronized effort to smear and impeach Bill Clinton.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In doing so, we are emphasizing, once again, Sentelle's pivotal and political role in using his judicial robes to advance the coordinated strategy, in 1994, to use an "investigation" process to achieve the goal of impeachment, essentially a sanctioned coup.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Remember that this was the same basic Federalist Society crew who used the Supreme Court to steal the election for George W. Bush in 2000. They consider the federal judicial branch of government to be an extension of their effort to achieve unified one-party rule. This is not conjecture; it is borne out by the facts.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So we move onto to our July 25, 2002, <a href="http://blog.buzzflash.com/interviews/2002/07/25_Joe_Conason.html" target="_blank">interview with Conason</a> to return to the scene of the crime. No impeachment effort would have advanced if David Sentelle had not heeded the bidding of Sentelle's mentor, Jesse Helms, and then U.S. Senator Lauch Faircloth.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The excerpt is a little long, but well worth the effort to read, and it ends on a prescient note:</font></p>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BuzzFlash: We've talked with Gene Lyons and David Brock, and want to talk with you, about one of the little details that gets lost in the memory of the average person. There are probably only a few hundred people in the U.S. that can recall this, but it's in your book and David Brock's book. We're talking about the moment when former<b> Senator Faircloth of North Carolina and Jesse Helms met with David Sentelle</b>.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What happened? Why was this such a critical moment in the effort to bring down the President? To us, it symbolizes that the right-wing and the Republican Party would stop at nothing to unseat a duly elected president, including using their judiciary pals to try to achieve that effort.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joe Conason: What happened was very interesting, because it shows how determined the Republicans can be, and how far-sighted they often are when they're protecting their partisan interest. David Sentelle was put in the position to run the Special Division, which is a special court empowered under the Independent Counsel Act to select independent counsels and to oversee their work. Sentelle was a relatively inexperienced federal judge from North Carolina with extreme right-wing views, brought to power by Jesse Helms. He had been a big fundraiser for Ronald Reagan, which was a principal reason why he was appointed to the bench in the first place. Then he was chosen to run the Special Division by William Rehnquist, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Under the guidelines of the Independent Counsel Act, Rehnquist was supposed to select somebody of senior status, a very experienced judge. But the Act did not require him to do that. And David Sentelle was reliably right-wing. That was the only reason that Rehnquist picked Judge Sentelle, and Judge Sentelle proceeded to behave exactly as I think Rehnquist must have expected him to.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But before the Independent Counsel Act was reinstated by Congress and President Clinton, Robert Fiske had been chosen by Janet Reno to serve as the Whitewater special counsel in January 1994.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BuzzFlash: He was a Republican from New York with integrity.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joe Conason: He was a U.S. Attorney of spotless integrity, one praised by Republicans when he was chosen. Then he functioned for about six months as the special counsel examining Whitewater. Of course, he basically found very little -- if anything -- to prosecute. I think he was going to prosecute Webb Hubbell. Other than that, there was very little for him to do, and he was wrapping it up. He had wrapped up the Foster investigation and had found that Foster committed suicide. But the right-wing decided that they were very unhappy with this Republican prosecutor's results in the Whitewater investigation, and started a campaign in the newspapers to get rid of him, particularly in William Safire's column for the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal editorial columns. There were really vicious attacks on him.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BuzzFlash: So they demanded a special counsel and a special counsel was appointed. But they didn't like the fact that Fiske was about to close up shop and say there's nothing here.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joe Conason: They didn't like the investigation of somebody they had endorsed, who was from their party, of total integrity -- he had prosecuted Democrats and Republicans as U.S. Attorney. They didn't like the results, so they started a press campaign to get rid of him and get a different prosecutor in there who would get better results -- from their point of view. So what happened? When the Independent Counsel Act was reinstated by Congress in the summer of '94 -- and the President made the mistake of signing it -- Sentelle was suddenly re-empowered. Instead of re-appointing Fiske, he fired Fiske. After meeting with Senators Helms and Faircloth, the two right-wing Republican senators from his home state of North Carolina, Sentelle appointed Ken Starr.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>When they were asked about this inappropriate luncheon, the judge and<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> two senators first claimed that all they had talked about was their prostates and cowboy boots</span>. But later, Judge Sentelle admitted under oath that they might have talked a little bit about the independent counsel, though he wasn't sure exactly what had been said</b>. Naturally this was considered an extremely suspicious set of circumstances by anybody who had the faintest powers of observation.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What happened after the meeting with Helms and Faircloth was that David Sentelle picked Ken Starr. This was a very curious choice because Ken Starr had no prosecutorial experience -- none whatsoever. He was an appellate attorney for big corporations. He had been Bush Sr.'s Solicitor General, but he had no experience in criminal prosecution at all. What he did have going for him was that he was a politically reliable, right-wing Republican with a good reputation in the Washington press.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BuzzFlash:<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> And a member of the Federalist Society.</span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Joe Conason: A leading member and supporter of the Federalist Society, a Bush loyalist, and a very partisan Republican. Not too long before that, Starr had thought of running for the Senate in Virginia as a Republican</span>. He had also recently gotten himself involved in the Paula Jones cases as an informal advisor to Paula Jones' attorneys. Then he was asked to assist Jones by the Independent Women's Forum, which is a Scaife-funded political organization for conservative women. So we went from a professional prosecutor -- probably one of the best in the country -- to a lawyer with no prosecutorial qualifications whatsoever, but a strong partisan who'll behave that way.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BuzzFlash: This symbolizes to BuzzFlash the intersection between the political objectives of the Republican Party and how they use the judiciary. The judiciary nominations are generally below the radar screen of the public and the press. Yet it's been so important to the Bush White House to get their people on the courts. That's because their people, with a wink of an eye, tend to be people that can be relied upon when it comes to decisions that can politically affect the interests of the Republican Party. It seems to BuzzFlash that the David Sentelle appointment of Ken Starr was a pivotal moment. The results consumed the nation for four years, including an impeachment trial -- the judiciary was used to secure someone who was willing to try to entrap the President of the United States and lead to an impeachment trial.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joe Conason: Well, I think that's right. I think these judicial appointments can't be underestimated. The judiciary is supposed to protect freedoms from corrupt political leaders. The judiciary is supposed to be a bulwark of freedom, and, in this case, it proved to be the opposite of that. The judiciary was used from the very highest judicial position in the land, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, to make political attacks on the opposition or on the duly elected President. This was how the judiciary was misused. It's one of the grossest abuses of judicial authority we've ever seen. And Rehnquist got away with it.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BuzzFlash: How do you reflect upon the 5-4 decision of the Supreme Court to install Bush as President? Particularly that unbelievably frank injunction that Scalia issued to stop the recount, saying the recount might be harmful to the eventual winner of the election, George W. Bush -- that it might damage the reputation of his presidency?</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joe Conason: I think this was the end result of a long series of unchecked abuses by partisan conservative members of the Supreme Court. And we may not have seen the last of it. What's disturbing now is you look at a Court like that and you wonder about challenges to civil liberties -- whether the support will stand up for them or not. I have grave doubts.</font></p>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Well, Conason's doubts about the upper federal courts not upholding civil liberties has been proven, unfortunately, to be a valid concern. And David Sentelle has played a role in protecting the administration as it dismantles the rights guaranteed to us under the Constitution.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How can one partisan hack judge, a disciple of Jesse Helms, continue to do so much damage?</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Because the Democrats in Congress do so little to block under-qualified, Republican loyalists whose primary goal is loyalty to the GOP, not the Constitution.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There has always been much talk of the Yale secret society "Skull and Bones" on the net in terms of speculation about George Bush's connection to the elite and powerful.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But if you want to know who is at the heart of the right-wing, partisan coup of our federal judiciary, one need just go to a public organization, the Federalist Society, of which Sentelle is an avid member (speaking at college and other chapters around the country).</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, as this is being written on November 15th, the <a href="http://www.fed-soc.org/events/id.40/event_detail.asp" target="_blank">Federalist Society is holding its annual conference</a> in D.C.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You might take a look at their speaker's list. It starts wit<b>h George W. Bush as the keynote</b> at their grand black tie gala in the main hall of Union Station. Of Course, David Sentelle is on a panel; he wouldn't disappoint his homies.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More tellingly, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court<b> John Roberts will deliver the "Seventh Annual Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture</b>" -- and you can be sure Ted Olson, husband of the late right-wing shock pundit, will be there. (Olson played a key role in the theft of the election of 2000 for Bush, and was a leader of the "Arkansas Project" formed in the early '90s to find grounds to impeach Clinton.)</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But it doesn't stop there. Guess who else is coming to rally the troops? How about, among others, <b>Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Robert Bork and Edwin Meese?</b></font>

<b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Phyllis Schlafly and John "Torture" Yoo are also listed as speakers.</font></b>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If you want to know the members of the vast right-wing federal judiciary, of whom Sentelle is just one key player, the Federalist Society convention is the place to be today.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It doesn't need to be a secret society; their activist, extremist judicial power grab is right out in the open.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And tonight their Howdy Doody, George W. Bush, will come to receive their gratitude and to express his thanks for all that they do for his radical agenda. After all, Bush wouldn't be president without their assistance in 2000.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Sentelle will be there, you can be sure, a proud foot soldier in the Republican judicial infantry.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG</font></p>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">part 5 mostly about silberman?</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">indep inst oakland</font></p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="" trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" font-size="font-size" px="px"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="pagebodycontent" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">david B. Sentelle</b> a Senior United States Circuit Judge and former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-style: inherit;">He graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina Law School, and he has served as an Associate with the law firm, Uzzell & Dumont, in Asheville, North Carolina; Assistant U. S. Attorney in Charlotte, North Carolina; State District Judge; and Partner of Tucker, Hicks, Sentelle, Moon & Hodge. Judge Sentelle has taught law and criminal justice at the University of North Carolina and Florida State University. In the fall of 1985, he joined the Western District of North Carolina where he served as U. S. District Judge until his appointment in 1987 to the U. S. Court of Appeals. Judge Sentelle’s scholarly articles have appeared in such journals as the </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Campbell Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Michigan Law Review</span>, and <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wake Forest Law Review</span>.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5;" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Arial, Verdana, " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" font-size="font-size" px="px" /><div class="linkscheme" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;" trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Video</font></b></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td valign="top" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.independent.org/multimedia/detail.asp?m=2682" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Stopping Violent Crime</font></a></td><td align="right" valign="top" nowrap="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">December 3, 1996</font></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5;"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Events</font></b></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td valign="top" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.independent.org/events/detail.asp?id=56" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Stopping Violent Crime: New Directions for Reduction and Prevention</font></a></td><td align="right" valign="top" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">December 3, 1996</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" align="right" valign="top" height="15" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></tr></tbody></table></p></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B.Sentelle"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://en<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.wikipedia</span>.org/wiki/David_B.Sentelle</font></a>

<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David B. Sentelle</font></h1>

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<div id="siteSub"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</font></div>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judge <b>David Bryan Sentelle</b> (born February 12, 1943 in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton,_North_Carolina" title="Canton, North Carolina">Canton, North Carolina</a>) is the Chief Judge of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_District_of_Columbia_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit">United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit</a>.</font></p>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B._Sentelle#Early_life_and_education"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Early life and education</span></font></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B._Sentelle#Federal_judicial_service"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Federal judicial service</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B.Sentelle#Hufaiza_Parhat_v.Gates"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Hufaiza Parhat v. Gates</span></font></a></li>

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<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_B._Sentelle&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</span></font></h2>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sentelle was born in Canton, NC, and attended college and law school at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill" title="University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</a>. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1965 and his law degree in 1968.</font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sentelle practiced law until becoming an assistant U.S. Attorney in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte,North_Carolina" title="Charlotte, North Carolina">Charlotte, North Carolina</a> in January 1970. From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974" title="1974">1974</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977" title="1977">1977</a>, Sentelle was the North Carolina State District Judge. He then practiced law privately from 1977 until 1985, when he was appointed to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.District_Court_for_the_Western_District_of_North_Carolina" title="U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina" class="mw-redirect">U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina</a> by President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985" title="1985">1985</a>.</font></p>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On February 2, 1987, Reagan nominated Sentelle to a position on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_District_of_Columbia_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit">United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit</a> to<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> replace <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Scalia" title="Antonin Scalia">Antonin Scalia</a>.</span> Sentelle was confirmed by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a> in an 87-0 vote on September 9, 1987.<b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sentelle's judicial clerks are known as Sentelle-tubbies.</span></b><sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B._Sentelle#cite_note-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the D.C. Circuit, Sentelle voted to overturn the convictions of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_North" title="Oliver North">Oliver North</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Poindexter" title="John Poindexter">John Poindexter</a>, along with Judge <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Silberman" title="Laurence Silberman" class="mw-redirect">Laurence Silberman</a>. He served on the Special Division of the Court which appointed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Starr" title="Kenneth Starr" class="mw-redirect">Kenneth Starr</a> under the renewed Independent Counsel statute, replacing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_B._Fiske" title="Robert B. Fiske">Robert B. Fiske</a>, who had been appointed by Attorney General <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Reno" title="Janet Reno">Janet Reno</a> special prosecutor to investigate the allegations against President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> with respect to the Whitewater affair.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007" title="2007">2007</a>, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boumediene_v.Bush" title="Boumediene v. Bush">Boumediene v. Bush</a>, 375 U.S. App. D.C. 48, Judge Sentelle concurred with Judge <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Raymond_Randolph" title="Arthur Raymond Randolph">Arthur Raymond Randolph</a>, relying on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_v.Eisentrager" title="Johnson v. Eisentrager">Johnson v. Eisentrager</a>, to uphold the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act_of_2006" title="Military Commissions Act of 2006">Military Commissions Act of 2006</a>'s suspension of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus" title="Habeas corpus">habeas corpus</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_combatants" title="Enemy combatants" class="mw-redirect">enemy combatants</a> as constitutional. Judge <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Ann_Wilson_Rogers" title="Judith Ann Wilson Rogers">Judith Ann Wilson Rogers</a> dissented.</font></p>

<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_B.Sentelle&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Hufaiza Parhat v. Gates">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Hufaiza_Parhat_v.Gates">Hufaiza Parhat v. Gates</span></font></h2>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On Monday June 23, 2008 it was announced that a three judge panel of the D.C. Circuit, made up of David B. Sentelle, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrick_B.Garland" title="Merrick B. Garland">Merrick B. Garland</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_B.Griffith" title="Thomas B. Griffith">Thomas B. Griffith</a>, overturned the determination of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hufaiza_Parhat" title="Hufaiza Parhat" class="mw-redirect">Hufaiza Parhat</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combatant_Status_Review_Tribunal" title="Combatant Status Review Tribunal">Combatant Status Review Tribunal</a> on Friday June 20, 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-NewYorkTimes20080624_1-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B._Sentelle#cite_note-NewYorkTimes20080624-1"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup> Parhat's was the first case to be ruled on since the Supreme Court's ruling in Boumediene v. Bush. However, the ruling was made under a section of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detainee_Treatment_Act" title="Detainee Treatment Act">Detainee Treatment Act</a>. The court held that even under the government's own interpretation of the statute, it has failed to offer sufficiently reliable evidence for its determination that Parhat's is an enemy combatant.</font></p>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sentelle, David B. (2002). <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dave_and_the_Rainbow_People" title="Judge Dave and the Rainbow People">Judge Dave and the Rainbow People</a></i>. Green Bag Press, Washington D.C. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0967756839" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 0-9677568-3-9</a></font></li>

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<li id="cite_note-0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B._Sentelle#cite_ref-0">^</a></b> <a href="http://underneaththeirrobes.blogs.com/main/2004/10/the_young_turks.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://underneaththeirrobes.blogs.com/main/2004/10/the_young_turks.html</a></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-NewYorkTimes20080624-1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B.Sentelle#cite_ref-NewYorkTimes20080624_1-0">^</a></b> <span class="citation news"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Glaberson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Glaberson (page does not exist)">William Glaberson</a> (2008-06-24). <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/washington/24combatant.html?r=1&hp&oref=slogin" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Court Voids Finding on Guantánamo Detainee"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" title="New York Times" class="mw-redirect">New York Times</a><span class="printonly">. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/washington/24combatant.html?r=1&hp&oref=slogin" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/washington/24combatant.html?r=1&hp&oref=slogin</a></span><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2008-06-24</span>.</span></font></li>

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</font></p><p class="case_cite" style="margin: 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em; text-align: center; border: 2px solid white; overflow: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">130 F.3d 1041</font></p><p class="case_cite" style="margin: 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em; text-align: center; border: 2px solid white; overflow: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">45 ERC 1833, 327 U.S.App.D.C. 248, 28
Envtl. L. Rep. 20,403</font></p><p class="parties" style="margin: 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em; text-align: center; border: 2px solid white; overflow: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HOME BUILDERS, et al., Appellants,
v.
Bruce BABBITT, Secretary, United States Department of
Interior and Mollie Beattie, Director, United
States Fish and Wildlife Service, Appellees.</font></p><p class="docket" style="margin: 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em; text-align: center; border: 2px solid white; overflow: hidden; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No. 96-5354.</font></p><p class="court" style="margin: 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 1em; text-align: center; border: 2px solid white; overflow: hidden; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">United States Court of Appeals,
District of Columbia Circuit.
Argued Oct. 3, 1997.
Decided Dec. 5, 1997.</font></p><div class="prelims" style="position: relative; margin: 1em 0px 1.5em; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.5em; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);"><p class="indent" style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia; No. 95cv01973.</font></p><p class="indent" style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thomas C. Jackson argued the cause for appellants, with whom Patrick J. Hurd, Arthur S. Garrett III, Martha E. Marrapese, Glen F. Koontz and Alec I. Ugol were on the briefs. Alan K. Marks entered an appearance.</font></p><p class="indent" style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David C. Shilton, Attorney, United States Department of Justice, argued the cause for appellees, with whom Lois J. Schiffer, Assistant Attorney General, and J. Carol Williams, Attorney, were on the brief. John A. Bryson, Attorney, entered an appearance.</font></p><p class="indent" style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">William R. Irvin, Kathleen Rogers, Josh Eagle and Michael J. Bean were on the brief for amici curiae Center for Marine Conservation, et al.</font></p><p class="indent" style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robin L. Rivett and Anne M. Hawkins were on the brief for amicus curiae Pacific Legal Foundation.</font></b></p><p class="indent" style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Daniel J. Popeo and Paul D. Kamenar were on the brief for amicus curiae Washington Legal Foundation.</font></b></p><p class="indent" style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paul M. Terrill, III was on the brief for amicus curiae American Land Foundation.</font></p><p class="indent" style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before: WALD, SENTELLE and HENDERSON, Circuit Judges.</font></p><p class="indent" style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Opinion filed by Circuit Judge WALD.</font></p><p class="indent" style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dissenting opinion filed by Circuit Judge SENTELLE.</font></p><p class="indent" style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Concurring opinion filed by Circuit Judge KAREN LECRAFT HENDERSON.</font></p><p class="indent" style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WALD, Circuit Judge:</font></p><p class="indent" style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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