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Dem Judge Orders Psych Counseling For D'Souza
2015-07-15
[WND] At a hearing Monday in Manhattan in which he ruled filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza must continue community service for four more years, U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman said he considers D'Souza's violation of federal campaign-finance laws to be evidence of a psychological problem and ordered further counseling.

D'Souza's defense counsel Benjamin Brafman provided evidence to the court that the psychiatrist D'Souza was ordered to see found no indication of depression or reason for medication. In addition, the psychologist D'Souza subsequently consulted provided a written statement concluding there was no need to continue the consultation, because D'Souza was psychologically normal and well adjusted.

But Judge Berman, who was appointed by Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is...
, disagreed, effectively overruling the judgment of the two licensed psychological counselors the U.S. probation department had approved as part of D'Souza's criminal sentence.

"I only insisted on psychological counseling as part of Mr. D'Souza's sentence because I wanted to be helpful," the judge explained. "I am requiring Mr. D'Souza to see a new psychological counselor and to continue the weekly psychological consultation not as part of his punishment or to be retributive.
Posted by:Fred

#15  Cover for Cruz
Posted by: Shipman   2015-07-15 18:26  

#14  which is why Trump is getting his boost.

Is Trump a Double Agent for the Left?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-07-15 15:54  

#13  ..which is why Trump is getting his boost.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-07-15 15:48  

#12  Considering how the democrats play loose and free with election finance laws they may not like this precident. Of course they know the Pubs are to moral and lack the stones to follow up.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-07-15 14:15  

#11  Brezhnev laughed? Stalin thought it was hysterical!
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-07-15 14:14  

#10  Brezhnev laughed.
Posted by: charger   2015-07-15 12:23  

#9  ..why one? If you buy the lie of 'checks and balances', a lot of them should have already been de-benched. You have an aristocracy running an entire third of the government. The timidity of the legislative branch which has already surrendered responsibility and power to the bureaucracy only serves as an institution to keep the rubes in believing it's still a republic, which it isn't.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-07-15 08:59  

#8  Congress should impeach the Judge
Posted by: Frank G   2015-07-15 08:42  

#7  Judicial harassment. What are the politics of Berman?
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-07-15 08:06  

#6  Dick Berman, so sane, so intelligent!
So honest, so helpful, so eloquent!
Not one of those judges
Unhinged by their grudges
That get off on shooting an elephant!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2015-07-15 05:58  

#5  D'Souza is being 'Trumped.'

Speaking out against the Champ, making inquiries about his birth, college transcripts, passport, etc. is grounds for psychiatric eval.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-07-15 05:36  

#4  Judge Richard M. Berman, You are a Leftist tampon and a HORRIBLE "Judge"
There are cases, with you.
Cases.

Fuck this


Posted by: newc   2015-07-15 04:43  

#3  Fuck this.
Posted by: newc   2015-07-15 04:35  

#2  Comeon Judge - lets call it what it really is: ReEducation.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2015-07-15 00:46  

#1  Soviet Union was famous for sending dissidents in for psychiatric treatment.
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-07-15 00:43  

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