July 21, 2011
Senator Pryor offers three fresh picks for U.S. judge position.
Hardly fresh.  Two of them have been wallowing in government since the day their legal feet hit the ground.

The three candidates are Christine Baker, a private practice lawyer in Little Rock; Jane Duke, first assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District; and Collette Honorable, Chairman of the Arkansas Public Service Commission.

Pryor said when considering a judicial candidate, he asks himself “whether the person is well-qualified and impartial and has the proper judicial temperament”.

Are these fresh picks political cronies? Pryor’s statement of being “well-qualified” so indicates, followed by Senator Boozman’s statement  “will uphold our nation’s laws”.

An example: In 2008 ICE raided the Pilgrim’s Pride plant in N.E. Arkansas.  Prosecutor Duke’s statements after the raid were indeed chilling and showed conclusively that she was not acquainted with federal law or was acting on orders from D.C. not to enforce U.S. law, i.e. 8 USC.  Here are her statements dealing with the illegal Mexicans in the Pilgrim’s Pride raid.  “Her office has no interest seeing those arrested serving jail time as they were otherwise law-abiding citizens”.  Say again, Ms. Duke, illegals are law-abiding Citizens??  Prosecutor Duke goes on to say “they came here to better their lives and their family lives by working”.    Federal Prosecutors are appointed to enforce the rule of law, not massage 3rd World criminals or fail to arrest their employers who are committing felonies by aiding and abetting illegal aliens.

Joe McCutchen
Fort Smith