David Prosser: Don't Make Me Choke A B****

Yes, I can now use the headline I wanted, now that it seems like Prosser is in the clear (apparently), and that he was actually charged by this associate justice but blocked her off with his hands.

Around her neck, sure. But she came at him with fists, two reports say.

All I gotta say is: What in the hell is going on in this court?

Although the left speaks of impeachment, if it is true (and it's two sources who say so) that this other justice came at Prosser with her fists, looks like she'll be the one getting impeached.

And Of Course Althouse Was All Over This: I really should have given her the main link, as she was on this all weekend (and very skeptical of the left's claims).

Here's her big question: Since this one reporter presumably heard the other version of the story -- the one where Prosser was not the aggressor, but attempting to defend himself from a lunatic -- how, exactly, did his report manage to omit that?

If Lueders had the larger context of the story — including the allegation that Bradley was the aggressor — and he suppressed it in his original account, what he did was not only evil, shameful journalism, it was freakingstupid. All sorts of bloggers and tweeters like Millhiser committed themselves to the firm, righteous position that if Prosser did what is alleged, he must leave the court. Lueders’s article lured them into stating a firm and supposedly neutral principle about physical aggression. With that principle in place, they are bound to call for Bradley’s ouster, if Bradley really did take the offensive and transform the verbal argument into a physical fight.

See, the left has been agitating all weekend for impeachment based on physical aggression.

Having laid that marker down... well, they can reverse themselves, as they always do, when partisan interest conflicts with principle, but it will be a wrenchingly ugly maneuver.

posted by Ace at 07:52 PM

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