FEDERAL JUDGE NOT COOL ON LINDA SINGER FOR DC ATTORNEY GENERAL

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FEDERAL JUDGE NOT COOL ON

LINDA SINGER FOR DC ATTORNEY GENERAL

 

I will be the first person but by far not the only one to say that Linda J. Singer is not competent to become DC’s next attorney general for three good reasons. They are: 1. That she has not practiced law in over ten (10) years; 2. After moving to DC over a decade or more to go, she never saw fit to join the DC Bar but maintains a non-active membership in the NY State Bar; and 3. Mayor elect Fenty’s appointment of her has nothing to do with her qualifications for the job as she is not qualified at all but her nomination was political pay back for her hard work on Fenty’s campaign in ward 3.

 

Recently, United States District Judge Royce Lamberth expressed a worried concern about Linda Singer’s intentions when the Washington Post quoted him as saying: “A federal judge sent a stern, angry warning from the bench yesterday to Mayor-elect Adrian M. Fenty: Don't let the D.C. attorney general's office start prosecuting local crimes until its lawyers competently handle the civil cases they already have. U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth accused the attorney general's office of engaging in games in a wrongful arrest lawsuit an 18-year-old high school girl filed against a group of city police officers. She was arrested last year when she went to a police station seeking to rebut a routine $25 noise citation. In a hearing on the case yesterday, Lamberth pointed to evidence that the attorney general's office helped the officers avoid being served with the suit and simultaneously tried to get the suit dismissed. Lamberth -- who frequently admonishes attorneys he deems inadequate to the task -- said the case illustrated a pattern of lackluster performance. He said it heightened his concern about Fenty's and Attorney General-nominee Linda Singer's interest in taking over some local criminal prosecutions now handled by federal prosecutors. "It bothers me a lot to hear that kind of talk," Lamberth said, visibly fuming. "How could there even be a thought that they could take that on? The D.C. attorney general's office is not adequately or properly handling the cases it has now."

 

Linda J. Singer has already shown her incompetence or lack of knowledge of the capabilities of the DC Attorney General’s Office and Fenty should withdraw her nomination.