The National Review (NRO) hates that Diane Wood acclaimed the humanity of gays in questioning the Christan Legal Society, an anti-abortion and anti gay outfit, during oral arguments in Christian Legal Society v. Walker, No. 05-3239.

Wood, a justice on the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh District is considered a leading candidate for Justice Souter's seat.

Bigotry and discrimination are not "about hatred, it is about love. To tell something, somebody something that's wrong is right is not loving, and that's what this chapter would be doing," said the CLC attorney. The NRO's Ed Whelan writes this exchange shows Wood "displayed a hostility to orthodox Christian beliefs."

Trying to fire up the religious right just maybe.

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Justice Diane P. Wood is drawing attention as a leading candidate to fill the first vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Wood is famous in some circles (especially in Wisconsin) for her judicial equivalent of voiced disgust shown towards Stephen Biskupic, former U.S. Atty for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, who launched several political prosecutions during his tenure with the Bush administration's Department of Justice, including the repulsive political prosecution of an innocent woman, Georgia Thompson.

Wood was nominated to serve as an appellate judge by President Clinton and confirmed in 1995.

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Stephen Biskupic, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (2002 - present) has announced that he is resigning in January before the new administration takes office.

The DOJ is one Dept that needs a housecleaning.

Good riddance, though Biskupic allowed that he has amassed a good "track record," like the other non-fired US Attys in the corrupt Bush DOJ.

Many Wisconsin Democrats and allies would agree with that positive assessment of Biskupic's office performance, in point of fact.

But I doubt that Biskupic is sending a Christmas card to the proven-innocent Georgia Thompson this year [see also Biskupic tried to 'squeeze' Georgia Thompson, and Investigate Biskupic].

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Via http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2007/11/ innocent-and-wrongly-convicted-wis.html

AP writer RYAN J. FOLEY has the latest story of the innocent Wisconsin woman whose life U.S. Attorney Stephen Biskupic (of the Eastern District of Wisconsin) tried, in vain, to ruin, so that Biskupic might curry favor with his bosses and sway a close gubernatorial election in 2006.

Personally, I think Biskupic ought to pay the innocent Georgia Thompson out of his own pocket, offer a written apology to her and the people of Wisconsin, quit the bar, and vow to Wisconsin citizens that he will not travel within a five-mile radius of any prosecutor's office.

Ever wonder how this guy looks at himself in the mirror every day after what he has done to numerous innocents? Really, how does this guy live with himself?

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Even as the U.S. Justice Department arrogantly stonewalls requests by the House Committee on the Judiciary for documents pertaining to politically-charged prosecutions in Alabama, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (the Georgia Thompson affair), Wisconsin's U.S. Atty. Stephen Biskupic volunteered to offer transcribed testimony under oath before the Judiciary Committee.

"If they (the House Judiciary Committee) want to hear from me, I'm happy to do it."
Even if the testimony is transcribed and under oath?
"It really doesn't matter to me," said Biskupic, as reported by Dan Bice in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

Biskupic's stated inclination puts him in conflict with his bosses' position at the DoJ which refused to provide documents requested by the House Committee, and which only offered the Committee Biskupic's presence for an "untranscribed briefing," as quoted from the DoJ's Sept. 4 response letter written by Brian A. Benczkowski, the Justice Department's principal Congressional liaison.

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