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Alabama Justice Compares DADT Judge to Al QaedaÂ
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Alabama Justice Compares DADT Judge to Al QaedaÂ
Alabama Justice Compares DADT Judge to Al QaedaÂ
An Alabama supreme court justice has compared the federal judge who ruled "don't ask, don't tell" unconstitutional to Al Qaeda, Think Progress reports.
"Liberal judges are at it again," Justice Tom Parker, a Tea Party candidate who was first elected to the court in 2004, said in a recent campaign ad.
"Recently, U.S. district judge Virginia Phillips ordered a worldwide injunction to overturn the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy on homosexuals serving in the military," he said. "With a stroke of a pen, this Clinton-appointed judge, who got her law degree at Berkeley, unilaterally made the biggest single change in military policy in American history. ... Most people believe that Al Qaeda is one of America's biggest security threats. I think it's time to add liberal activist judges like Judge Phillips to that list."
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