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Re: Judges in Bernstein case
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ernest Hua)
Mon May 10 14:44:48 1999
From: "Ernest Hua" <hua@teralogic-inc.com>
To: "Jim Gillogly" <jim@acm.org>, <cryptography@c2.net>
Cc: <hua@teralogic-inc.com>
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 11:25:57 -0700
As someone who pointed this out to me
last week, the Supreme Court still has
loads of Reagan appointees, so there is
still likely to be an up hill fight against
deference to national security [sic]
interests.
Ern
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
To: cryptography@c2.net <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Monday, May 10, 1999 11:07 AM
Subject: Judges in Bernstein case
>Fred Baube wrote:
>> And, just out of curiosity, who appointed Judges Fletcher and
>> Bright ? I would like to see this in news reports, but I sup-
>> pose this would require some genuiine research work on the part
>> of reporters, and anyways it might remind people that certain
>> recent Presidents, and one in particular, spoke libertarianism
>> while implementing statism.
>
>Judge Betty Fletcher, who wrote the opinion, was appointed by
>President Carter in 1979. Judge Thomas Nelson, who wrote the
>dissent, was appointed by President Bush in 1990. Judge Myron
>Bright, who concurred with the opinion, is on loan from the
>Eighth Circuit Court; I don't know who appointed him.
>--
> Jim Gillogly
> Highday, 19 Thrimidge S.R. 1999, 17:35
> 12.19.6.3.4, 7 Kan 12 Uo, First Lord of Night
>
