Sid Salter blogged
Chancery Larry Buffington: Braying even louderBuffington has ordered two Republican supervisors to appear before him on Wednesday so he can explain why he ordered them to hire Diaz. Seems Buffington didn't order the Democratic supervisors to appear, just those from the GOP. Buffington apparently wants to find out who told the media about his little job for former Justice Diaz. Exactly why that matters, other to a large judicial ego run amok, is uncertain. What is certain is that voters ought to pay attention to this exercise in trying to take the First Amendment out for a spin around Simpson County.
Then came this update from Salter:
Chancery Judge Larry Buffington: See your subpoena, raise you one motion to quash?Buffington apparently wants to find out who told the media about his little job for former Justice Diaz. Today, Madison County attorney and longtime Republican Andy Taggart filed a motion to quash the subpoenas. It will be interesting to see how far Buffington really wants to push this matter - which appears on its face to be a tremendous abuse of judicial discretion.
Now it seems Buffington gave a tacit admission he was wrong. Salter blogs:
Judge Buffington caves in, grants motion to quash partisan subpoenas...Chancery Judge Larry Buffington granted the motion to quash the ill-advised and partisan subpoenas of two Republican county supervisors in Simpson County filed by those supervisors by their attorney, Andy Taggart, this morning. Taggart said Buffington then went to the Board of Supervisors meeting, made a long explanation of his actions and his intentions in Simpson County, then left. The board then went on with their business.
Buffington issued subpoenas. An attorney challenged those subpoenas. Buffington accepted the challenge, which is a a tacit admission that he was wrong to issue them in the first place. Bad Larry Buffington, bad.
Braying is right. What an a**. This isn't his first "tremendous abuse of judicial discretion" but if the system works, maybe it will be his last.
ReplyDeleteBy quashing the subpoenas, he basically admitted he did wrong in the first place. But it is hard to believe that he would admit that he doesn't care that he did wrong. We can forgive a repentent sinner. But he is wallowing in his wrongdoing.
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