There is a disturbing trend in Maricopa County Superior Court by Presiding Judge Barbara Mundell to pick and choose judges at will in order to ensure that the most liberal judges handle important political cases. She is essentially picking how justice will turn out. Her latest trend is to pluck judges out of retirement and put them on key cases to ensure politically liberal outcomes.
Most recently, she assigned retired judge Donald Daughton, a Democrat, to hear the challenge by abortion provider Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights to Arizona's recently passed prolife laws. The challenge was also filed at the same time in Arizona's federal court. Since the laws were to go into effect Tuesday, the suits asked for an emergency temporary restraining order (TRO) to halt them from going into effect until the issue could be fully litigated - which could take years. The federal court judge denied the request for a TRO.
Judge Daughton granted the TRO.
This is not the first time Judge Daughton has been pulled from retirement by Mundell in order to ensure a liberal outcome on a high-profile political case. Mundell apparently didn't like the outcome she was getting in a dispute between the County Attorney's Office and her political allies at the Board of Supervisors (who have bought her off by ensuring she will get a $340 million state of the art court tower), so she replaced the assigned judge with - Judge Daughton. Sure enough, Daughton ruled that the Board of Supervisors has the authority to gut the County Attorney's Civil Division and set up their own shadow County Attorney's Office.
Not surprisingly, Judge Daughton is a big supporter of Obama and Democrat U.S. Rep. Harry Mitchell, as evidenced by his contributions below from the FEC website. With a history this biased, he is not fit to sit on this case. He should have disclosed up front his political contributions to left wing politicians.
How long is Judge Mundell going to continue picking and choosing judges as she pleases including ones who are retired to predetermine the outcome of cases? What's wrong with using our existing judges, and picking them by lottery? We will continue to document these outrageous preferences of justice.
Presented by the Federal Election Commission
Individual Contributions Arranged By Type, Giver, Then Recipient
Contributions to Political Committees
DAUGHTON, DONALD
PHOENIX, AZ 85018
N/A/RETIRED
| MITCHELL, HARRY E. VIA HARRY MITCHELL FOR CONGRESS | |||
| 10/23/2008 | 500.00 | 28934600636 | |
DAUGHTON, DONALD
PHOENIX, AZ 85018
NOT EMPLOYED/RETIRED
| OBAMA, BARACK VIA OBAMA FOR AMERICA | |||
| 11/01/2007 | 500.00 | 28930538381 | |
| 03/31/2008 | 250.00 | 28931257229 | |
Total Contributions: 1250.00
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