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2008-03-07 Home Front: Culture Wars
Anti-war judge rejects foster teen's bid to join military
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Posted by OldSpook 2008-03-07 10:30|| || Front Page|| [3 views ]  Top

#1 And if you are too lazy to hit the web and search:

MACKEL, MARILYN
Commissioner
Edmund D. Edelman Children’s Court (Dependency)
Dept 402
(323) 526-6402

Be polite. No bad language.

But be firm in telling her a judge is not supposed to inject her ignorance, prejudice and unreasoned bias into another young person’s choice to serve his/her country.

Information courtesy of LASuperiorCourt.org's search engine.

http://www.lasuperiorcourt.org/judicialofficers/index.aspx
Posted by OldSpook 2008-03-07 10:39||   2008-03-07 10:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Although she practiced business litigation in Orange County before she became a bench officer, the Mississippi native said she has had a longstanding interest in criminal justice and juvenile law.

A graduate of Bennett College, a historically black women’s school in Greensboro, N.C., she was a social worker in foster care in New York City. She later worked as a probation officer while earning a master’s degree at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, part of the City University of New York.

Mackel’s law degree is from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. After graduation, she taught criminal justice at the University of the District of Columbia and had her own practice in the nation’s capital.

Hardly surprising I'd say.
Posted by Besoeker 2008-03-07 10:45||   2008-03-07 10:45|| Front Page Top

#3 "It just felt like, wow. I even told Shawn, I said, `Dude, it feels like we've been burned at the stake at the Salem witch trial.' She just had some kind of animosity toward military personnel."

Not yet, sarge. Not yet...
Posted by tu3031 2008-03-07 10:52||   2008-03-07 10:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't beg, appeal.

If that doesn't work, wait 'til you turn 18, sign up, and mail the judge a postcard from boot camp. And another from Fallujah. Come back on leave and drop by the courthouse in full Class A uniform, just to say hello.
Posted by Mike 2008-03-07 10:55||   2008-03-07 10:55|| Front Page Top

#5 He did one better. He suggested a law that requires only the consent of foster parent OR social worker. And its either or - they both must say no to veto the enlistment. No judge and her prejudiced ignronace and political axe-grinding, and abusing some poor kid to make her political hay and hatred.

And it looks like it will pass - thanks to heavy Republican shaming of the Dems in the land of fruits and nuts.
Posted by OldSpook 2008-03-07 11:29||   2008-03-07 11:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Even better idea: cross the border into Arizona, enlist, then return to California.
Posted by Anonymoose 2008-03-07 12:01||   2008-03-07 12:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Rope. Tree. Judge.

Some assembly required.

Black robed tyrants.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2008-03-07 12:17||   2008-03-07 12:17|| Front Page Top

#8 I would guess that since this particular decision was based on the judge's personal bias and apparently nothing else, it should be rather easy to have the case heard by another judge.
Posted by crosspatch 2008-03-07 12:30||   2008-03-07 12:30|| Front Page Top

#9 And definitely file a complaint with the state bar association. To me, it's grounds for disbarment as it's a clear case of personal bias and the judge has no legal basis for the ruling.
Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick  2008-03-07 13:34||   2008-03-07 13:34|| Front Page Top

#10 As if changing the law will matter. This bitch was honestly "ruling" from the bench -- her whims outweighed all else.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2008-03-07 13:45||   2008-03-07 13:45|| Front Page Top

#11 I like Mike's idea. Living well is the best revenge. The young man should do well in the Marines, and come back to Commisioner Mackel's hearing room in full Class A uniform.

Just to be an inspiration to the other kids there that day. And he would be.
Posted by Steve White">Steve White  2008-03-07 14:19||   2008-03-07 14:19|| Front Page Top

#12 Will the day come when we take our country back from sanctimonious bitches like this hack of a judge?

I'm not holding my breath.
Posted by Crusader 2008-03-07 15:18||   2008-03-07 15:18|| Front Page Top

#13 Generational change, Crusader. Just give it a few more years.
Posted by t">t  2008-03-07 16:39||   2008-03-07 16:39|| Front Page Top

#14 t was me. Sorry!
Posted by trailing wife 2008-03-07 22:18||   2008-03-07 22:18|| Front Page Top

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