A Hartford paper has noted in an editorial that Governor Dannel Malloy, the chief executive of Connecticut’s one-party
state, is packing courts with Democratic appointments. Of the nominees “to fill vacancies on the
Superior Court bench and two judges to serve on the Appellate Court,” Mr. Malloy
has chosen from a list presented to him by the Judicial Selection Commission
eighteen (18) Democrats and zero (0) Republicans.
In its gently reproving editorial, the paper remarked on the
imbalance: “The dramatic partisan imbalance in Mr. Malloy's class of 18 doesn't
necessarily mean any of those nominated are unqualified to serve. Each was, in
fact, found qualified after an investigation by the Judicial Selection
Commission, which prepares a list from which the governor chooses his
nominees.”
The paper does not mention in its editorial the number of
Republicans on the list submitted to Mr. Malloy who had been passed over as
“unqualified” to serve on Mr. Malloy’s Democratic packed Superior and appellate courts.
The editorial commends Mr. Malloy for having “done better in
his four Supreme Court nominees. He picked a Republican, an unaffiliated voter
and two Democrats,” one of whom, Andrew McDonald, had been the co-chair of the
General Assembly’s Judiciary Committee, serving alongside Michael Lawlor, presently
Mr. Malloy’s Prison Czar.
Mr. Lawlor and Mr. McDonald were the two Democratic leaders
in the General Assembly who spearheaded the Democrat’s successful attack on
Connecticut’s death penalty. Under their baleful influence, the Democratic
dominated General Assembly abolished Connecticut’s death penalty for, say, mass
murderers shortly after two prisoners on parole invaded a house in Cheshire,
raped the mother of two daughters, raped one of the daughters and murdered
three women by setting them afire. The two parolees, operating out of a
half-way house, were tried, convicted and sentenced to death, where they joined
eleven other convicted murders on death row. The Sandy Hook massacre occurred
after the abolition of the death penalty. Had the shooter at Sandy Hook
Elementary School been taken alive, he could not have received the death
penalty, considered a useless and inhumane excrescence by both Undersecretary for Criminal Justice Policy and Planning at the Office of Policy and Management Lawlor and Supreme Court Justice McDonald.
No Republican has yet accused Mr. Malloy or Mr. Lawlor or
Mr. McDonald of having waged a bloody “war on women” by ending rather than
mending a death penalty that conceivably could dissuade future prisoners
released early under Mr. Lawlor’s get-out-of-jail-early program from committing
rape or arson. Of the 11 inmates awaiting execution on death row, not a few
have murdered women: Indeed, Michael Ross, the last death row prisoner to have been executed in the state, specialized in raping and strangling women. His
last two victims were fourteen-year-old girls.
Because the Democratic dominated General Assembly was far
too cowardly to move prisoners sentenced to death into life sentences,
legislators declined to convert to life in prison the death sentences of
convicted murders awaiting execution. By partially eliminating the death
penalty, those legislators who voted for abolition have assented to the
execution of prisoners in the absence of a law prescribing death for capital
felonies, a violation of the natural law undergirding all statutory and
constitutional law since the code of Hammurabi – which holds that here can be
no punishment in the absence of a law prescribing a punishment. If there is no
death penalty law, there can be no death penalty punishment.
Mr. Malloy has elevated to Connecticut’s highest court one
of his political cronies – Mr. McDonald has had a long political association
with Mr. Malloy – who MUST recuse himself on any matter brought before the
Supreme Court touching on the death penalty, and numerous decisions of this
kind are awaiting disposition before the court. No one will doubt that Mr.
McDonald is, in the words of the Hartford paper, “qualified to serve on the Supreme
Court.” Whether Mr. McDonald will bow to political pressure in his service is
an altogether different question.
The mildly reproved Mr. Malloy packs courts with Democrats because
he CAN do it. In a one party state dominated by progressives in which the major
media operates on the assumption that the left is, like Caesar’s wife, beyond
criticism, the chief executive will deploy near autocratic unquestioned power.
When Alice in Wonderland questions Humpty Dumpty for “making
words mean so many different things,” she is told in the accents of all Caesars
everywhere, “The question is which is to be master - - that's all."
Comments
Will his services for the next 3 years justify such a pension? The Governor apparently thinks so as do whoever supports his appointment. As the fish stinks from the head down, this latest appointment by Governor Malloy the Maleficent reaks of crony political reward and will cost the taxpayers dearly for years to come.