Richard Cebull Should Resign Or Be Impeached By Congress; Misuse Of Office & Racist Behavior In Workplace

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Federal Judge Richard Cebull (9th Circuit), a Federal Judge Appointed by George W. Bush in 2001, has Publicly Apologized for sending out an extremely Racist E-mail about Pres. Obama via his Official Judicial E-mail Account.

The E-mail suggests Pres. Obama was Conceived after his Mother had Sex with a Dog.

OMG!
That is so Disgusting!

Such Disrespectful Behavior from a Federal Judge!
A Publicly Apology from Richard Cebull is NOT good enough.

As a Federal Judge Appointed by a U.S. President & Confirmed by Congress, Richard Cebull is expected to Serve & Conduct himself in a Professional, Respectful Manner before the Public.

This is especially so whenever referring to a Sitting U.S. President.

How in the World can Richard Cebull be expected to continue Serving in his role as a Federal Judge and be expected to Treat Everyone Fairly, if he has expressed to the Entire United States via a Racist E-mail that he has a Problem with a BLACK, Elected President?

No a Public Apology isn't good enough!

Judge Richard Cebull Needs to Voluntarily Resign or Congress Should Impeach Him!
Period!






Richard Cebull says he sent Racist Obama e-mail


Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull apologized Wednesday for sending a racist email about President Obama from his office to a few friends.

"To say it's inappropriate and stupid is an extreme understatement," Cebull said Wednesday afternoon in his courthouse chambers in Billings.

"There is no doubt it's racist. It wasn't forwarded for that purpose," Cebull said. "If anything, it was political."

The judge admitted he forwarded the racially charged email he received to seven friends, including his brother, on Feb. 20 from his office computer.

The email eventually was forwarded to the Great Falls Tribune, which published it Wednesday. The Tribune said the email text read as follows:

"Normally I don't send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this.

Hope it touches your heart like it did mine.

"A little boy said to his mother, 'Mommy, how come I'm black and you're white?'
His mother replied, 'Don't even go there Barack!

From what I can remember about that party, you're lucky you don't bark!'"

Cebull took responsibility, calling it "a hard lesson to learn. I apologize."

The judge said he is not a racist although he acknowledged people will think that because of the email.

"And I don't blame them. The fact is that isn't how I've conducted myself as a federal judge. Never has anybody asserted I was racist," he said.

Cebull was nominated to the bench by former President George W. Bush and confirmed in 2001. He has been Montana's chief judge since 2008. Prior to becoming a district judge, Cebull served as a U.S. magistrate judge in Great Falls and had been in private practice.

Cebull said he does not remember who sent him the email and said he had deleted it before Wednesday. The judge also said he did not write the introduction.

The judge said he was at a loss to explain why he forwarded the message.

Friends send him emails of a political nature, he said.

"It was a private communication. I didn't intend for it to go public," he said.
As a judge, Cebull said, he can't express in public political preferences but was naive to not consider the public consequences of his actions.

The judge has said he is not an Obama supporter.

Cebull said he has emailed the other federal judges in Montana apologizing for his conduct. He said he will never forward or send another email from his office that isn't business related.


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Richard Cebull: Judge Nominated By Bush Sends Racist E-mail Calling Pres. Obama's Father A Dog!

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Federal Judge Richard Cebull Nominated by George W. Bush, admits to Forwarding an extremely Racist e-mail about Pres. Obama.
The e-mail explains a "Joke" which suggests that Pres. Obama's Mother had Sex with a Dog.
OMG!

Can Federal Judge Richard Cebull be forced to Resign for Speaking out & using Incendiary Racist language against a Sitting U.S. President?

Unfortunately Federal Judges can NOT be Fired or Forced to Resign.
They can ONLY be Impeached by Congress.

Federal Judges can't be Fired or asked to Resign even when using Incendiary Racist language against Sitting U.S. Presidents.
A Complaint can be Filed against Federal Judges but its highly unlikely they are ever Impeached.

The subject line of the email, which Cebull sent from his official courthouse email address on Feb. 20 at 3:42 p.m., reads:
"A MOM'S MEMORY":

"Normally I don't send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this. Hope it touches your heart like it did mine.

"A little boy said to his mother; 'Mommy, how come I'm black and you're white?'" the email joke reads. "His mother replied, 'Don't even go there Barack! From what I can remember about that party, you're lucky you don't bark!'"




Chief U.S. District Judge sends racially charged email about President Obama


Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull on Wednesday admitted to sending a racially charged email about President Barack Obama from his courthouse chambers.

Cebull, of Billings, was nominated by former President George W. Bush and received his commission in 2001 and has served as chief judge for the District of Montana since 2008.

The subject line of the email, which Cebull sent from his official courthouse email address on Feb. 20 at 3:42 p.m., reads: "A MOM'S MEMORY."

The forwarded text reads as follow:

"Normally I don't send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this. Hope it touches your heart like it did mine.

"A little boy said to his mother; 'Mommy, how come I'm black and you're white?'" the email joke reads. "His mother replied, 'Don't even go there Barack! From what I can remember about that party, you're lucky you don't bark!'"

Cebull admitted Wednesday to sending the email to seven recipients, including his personal email address.

The judge acknowledged that the content of the email was racist, but said he does not consider himself racist. He said the email was intended to be a private communication.

"It was not intended by me in any way to become public," Cebull said. "I apologize to anybody who is offended by it, and I can obviously understand why people would be offended."

Cebull said his brother initially sent him the email, which he forwarded to six of his "old buddies" and acquaintances.

He admitted that he read the email and intended to send it to his friends.

"The only reason I can explain it to you is I am not a fan of our president, but this goes beyond not being a fan," Cebull said. "I didn't send it as racist, although that's what it is. I sent it out because it's anti-Obama."

Travis McAdam, executive director for the Montana Human Rights Network , said the email contained highly racist rhetoric unbecoming of a federal judge.

"It's one thing if the judge is not a fan of President Barack Obama, but you would think someone in his position would articulate that in a way that criticizes his policy decisions or his position on issues," McAdam said. "We have a hard time believing that a legitimate criticism of the president involves distributing a joke that basically compares African Americans with animals."

Cebull said he does not consider himself prejudice against people of other races or ethnic backgrounds, and that his actions in his courtroom have demonstrated that.

"I have never considered myself that way," Cebull said. "All I can emphasize is I've treated people in my courtroom all these years fairly. I don't think I've ever demonstrated racism. Nobody has ever even implied it."

Montana immigration attorney Shahid Haque-Hausrath was on the receiving end of a racially charged email sent by a top Immigrations and Customs Enforcement official last fall. That official was suspended after sending Haque-Hausrath an email implying that Muslim Americans must prove their allegiance to the United State.

Haque-Hausrath, who is in an interracial marriage and recently fathered a child with his wife, said Cebull's e-mail was "deeply troubling."

"Another federal official who is entrusted to do his duties fairly and impartially has yet again sent an email from his work account during work hours that espouses deeply racist and bigoted views," Haque-Hausrath said. "The reason why I think it's so troubling, is it espouses the deeply racist view that interracial sex is equivalent to bestiality. For a federal judge to be equating the two, and say since Barack Obama is of mixed racial background, that his mother was somehow committing acts of bestiality is incredibly racist and troubling.

One of the recipients of the email Cebull sent forwarded it to another person, who in turn forwarded it to another person. The email was eventually pass along to the Great Falls Tribune, who contacted Cebull. Cebull said he was surprised the recipients of the e-mail passed it along with his name on it.

"This is a private thing that was, to say the least, very poor judgment on my part," Cebull said. "I did not forward it because of the racist nature of it. Although it is racist, I'm not that way, never have been."


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Sources: Billings Gazette, Great Falls Tribune, MSNBC, TPM, Wikipedia, Google Maps

Was Max Baucus Drunk On The Senate Floor?? "Drunk With Power"

Max Baucus's Speech Under Conservative Fire


A speech by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) on health care has been generating buzz on the Internet, as the Drudge Report and others are suggesting that Baucus was slurring his speech and possibly "intoxicated" during his remarks.

"DRUNK WITH POWER? TOP DEM SLURS ON SENATE FLOOR..." reads the Drudge Report headline.

Newsbusters.org writes: "How can one explain this incredibly bizarre performance by Max Baucus on the Senate floor? Was Baucus so intoxicated by the sound of his own voice that he went off the deep end? Or perhaps he was so drunk with power over shaping the Senate health care bill that it explains his strange rant."

On his Facebook page, former congressman Mark Foley commented on the video: "This is the senator that hired his staffer and then took her on trips...and divorced his wife....and they had me run out of town."

An email seeking comment has been sent to Sen. Baucus's office and we will update this post when we hear back.





Bizarre Baucus Behavior On Senate Floor Ignored By MSM


Politico is now covering this with reference to this very NewsBusters story. Politico's Patrick Gavin claims that Baucus's office was sent an e-mail for an explanation of his strange behavior and will update later with the reply. Come on, Patrick. Do you really expect a candid response? And who in the Baucus Senate office will reply? His military affairs aide, Captain Morgan?)

How can one explain this incredibly bizarre performance by Max Baucus on the Senate floor? Was Baucus so intoxicated by the sound of his own voice that he went off the deep end? Or perhaps he was so drunk with power over shaping the Senate health care bill that it explains his strange rant. In any event, if a conservative such as Jim DeMint or Jeff Sessions had acted this way in the Senate, the mainstream media would have featured the video over and over and over again. Instead, since this was Democrat Max Baucus, this video was almost completely ignored by the MSM.

Since the MSM has provided no information on the Baucus performance, your humble correspondent has searched the blogosphere for answers. Here is an observation from Susan Flowers at Examiner.Com:

Is this acceptable, NO. Is this behavior and lack of leadership acceptable to U.S. Citizens who are paying his salary?

Have all rules established over hundreds of years being thrown out and disregarded by the Democrat party? He should be brought before his peers and punished, if they don't, should Voters, as employers, write him up for inappropriate behavior and disorderly conduct?

Americans are paying taxes to support his career. If you disapprove, call and write the other Senators and request he be charged with disorderly conduct. No one in the Congress or Senate should be allowed to be intoxicated when officially representing the Citizens of the USA.

Ease up, Susan. Perhaps Baucus, in the spirit (or spirits) of the season, was simply full of good Christmas cheer (hic!).

Brendan Calling weighs in:

Now, i have no proof Baucus is s--tfaced on expensive bourbon. I wasn’t there, I didn’t smell his breath, and I doubt he took a breathalyzer.

But just watch that performance and tell me that Baucus doesn’t look and sound like he’s polished off a couple of pints of Old Granddad. And not just his voice: the guy seems to be having trouble standing up straight. look at him reel around like the Tin Man’s dance scene in The Wizard of Oz.

We're Off to see the Wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz!

Hey, Max! Could you hand me a pint of Old Granddad. I want whatever you're having. I wanna have fun too!!!

And, finally, Glenn Reynolds at InstaPundit answers Max's question about where the courage is:

WHERE IS THE COURAGE? I think we’ve found the liquid courage, anyway.

Is that Chuck Schumer at stage left trying to get a long hook around Baucus to drag him off the scene?



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Melodee Hanes & Max Baucus: Another Lurid D.C. "Love Story"

(NY Daily News) Montana Sen. Max Baucus nominated own mistress, Melodee Hanes, as U.S. attorney



Sen. Max Baucus was having an extramarital affair with a woman he nominated to be U.S. attorney in Montana, the senator's spokesman admitted Friday night.

The Montana Democrat nominated Melodee Hanes, who was Baucus' state office director, and three others to the post in March, spokesman Tyler Matsdorf said. The two began having an affair in the summer of 2008, Matsdorf said.

He said the senator was separated from his wife when he gave Hanes' name to the White House. Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and his wife have since split.

"Sen. Baucus is currently in a mature and happy relationship with Melodee Hanes. They are both divorced, and in no way was their relationship the cause of their respective divorces," said Matsdorf.

Hanes later removed her name from nomination and took a job in the Justice Department.




(MSNBC) Aide: Baucus nominated girlfriend for Fed Post


Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus was already involved with his girlfriend and former staffer when he recommended her earlier this year to become the next U.S. attorney for Montana, a spokesman said.

The Montana Democrat and his former state office director Melodee Hanes began their relationship in the summer of 2008, after Baucus separated from his wife, Ty Matsdorf told The Associated Press late Friday.

Baucus nominated Hanes for the U.S. attorney post in Montana in March. But she later withdrew, saying she had been presented with other opportunities she couldn't pass up.

The Senate leader who's been a major proponent of Democratic health care legislation had submitted six names to a third-party reviewer, who whittled those to Hanes and two others. Matsdorf said the senator sent the three names to the White House with no ranking.

"Senator Baucus recommended each of the three candidates based solely on qualifications, and merit, knowing whichever one the White House selected would serve Montana well," Matsdorf said.

The spokesman said Baucus and Hanes decided during the nomination process that she should withdraw her name because the couple wanted to live together in Washington, which they later did.

Reason for disclosure?

Matsdorf declined to say why the senator was just now disclosing the circumstances surrounding the nomination, which was first reported in Roll Call, an online publication that covers Washington politics.

Baucus and his ex-wife Wanda announced last April that they planned to divorce after 25 years of marriage. In a joint statement, they said they have "parted ways amicably and with mutual respect."

Before the April announcement, Baucus said the couple had some "differences" in the marriage, which was his second.

Hanes started working for Baucus in 2002 and was his state director before leaving his office earlier this year for a position in the U.S. Department of Justice.

"Mel is supremely qualified and she got to her current position based solely on her merit," Matsdorf said.

President Barack Obama eventually nominated Helena attorney Michael Cotter for U.S. attorney, who supervises prosecutors of all federal crimes committed in Montana and the state's seven Indian reservations. Cotter is awaiting confirmation.

Baucus was elected to the Montana House in 1973 and to the U.S. House in 1974 and 1976. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1978 at age 36, and is up for re-election in 2014.

The senator has played increasingly visible roles in Congress, sometimes willing to buck his Democratic Party on certain issues. He seems to take the position that the state that sent him to the Senate for five terms is fundamentally conservative and its voters want someone willing to base votes on more than party lines.

At the center of health reform effort

Most recently Baucus has been at the center of an effort to move sweeping health care legislation through the Senate with a bill aimed at meeting Obama's goal of overhauling the nation's health care system to cover 48 million uninsured Americans.

Just on Friday, Baucus went against his party and backed a Republican effort to eliminate a long-term care insurance program to help seniors and the disabled. Republicans argued that the new plan would be a drain on the federal budget.

The Democrat has also been in the middle of other congressional battles: He played a key role in 2003 legislation adding a prescription-drug benefit to the Medicare program and enactment of President George W. Bush's tax cuts in 2001.

Baucus also has secured millions in federal funding for highways and billions in disaster aid for drought-plagued farmers and ranchers.




(Billing Gazette) County Prosecutor joins Baucus bid


Deputy County Attorney Melodee Hanes will be leaving her job to work for Sen. Max Baucus' re-election campaign.



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Sen. Max Baucus Is Moving Ahead With HC Reform Bill...Not Waiting On GOP

Politico----


Sen. Max Baucus moves forward with Health Care bill

Max Baucus couldn’t wait any longer.

After months of tentative steps and blown deadlines, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) stepped away from the bipartisan health care talks Wednesday and promised to move ahead on a bill — with or without Republican votes.

Baucus faced significant pressure from the White House and his Democratic colleagues to show progress on health care reform, particularly ahead of the president’s joint speech to Congress on Wednesday. But perhaps more than any of the numerous conversations he’s had with President Barack Obama or Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) about the urgency of producing legislation, the dwindling number of weeks left this year to pass a bill of this magnitude ultimately forced Baucus’s hand.

In essence, the calendar made him do it.

“Sometimes deadlines force decisions,” Baucus said.

Baucus said he will release a bill next week and start a committee markup the week of Sept. 21. The bipartisan talks will continue, and he said he still hoped for Republican votes — but he would move ahead with a bill either way.

“The time has come for action, and we will act,” Baucus said. “We are going to get this bill done by the end of the year.”

Baucus’s bill has taken on an almost outsize importance in the health care debate — because many insiders believe it could provide the blueprint for a final compromise. But there is a long way to go.

Consider the steps that Democrats still have to climb: After the Finance Committee approves a bill, Reid and a handful of other senators will need to merge it with the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee bill. And there is a significant difference that Reid will have to bridge: whether to send a bill to the Senate floor that would create a public insurance option or a network of consumer-owned cooperatives. It will be the first time the Democratic leadership, most likely with Obama’s input, will have to choose between the two options that have divided their party.

After the merger, the Senate is expected to take about two weeks to debate the bill. The House, which has been reluctant to act until the Senate showed movement, will also need to take up the bill.

And after the Senate and the House vote, there is a conference committee, which by all accounts is where many of the hard negotiations will take place — and could take some time.

“Everybody underestimates how much the calendar dictates things,” a senior Senate aide said.

As expected, the president touted the move — and the progress shown in four other congressional committees — as historic in his speech Wednesday to Congress.

“Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week,” Obama said. “That has never happened before. Our overall efforts have been supported by an unprecedented coalition of doctors and nurses, hospitals, seniors’ groups and even drug companies — many of whom opposed reform in the past. And there is agreement in this chamber on about 80 percent of what needs to be done, putting us closer to the goal of reform than we have ever been.”

White House aides welcomed the move, which was described as a way to break the gridlock and get the bill moving.

“The president has been talking to Chairman Baucus throughout this process, and I think he’s gratified by the news today,” White House senior adviser David Axelrod said.

Asked if the president pushed Baucus toward the deadline, Axelrod said: “I think that, um, they share a sense of urgency; let’s say that.”

From a political standpoint, Baucus’s move was as much about boosting the president as it was about himself. Since late July, the White House and the rest of Congress waited on Baucus as four other committees with jurisdiction over health care passed bills.

Baucus faced questions about his leadership and political will if he allowed the talks to go on indefinitely, particularly after the August recess, when Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) repeatedly railed against the president.

None of the three Republican senators involved in the bipartisan talks indicated Wednesday that they would leave the negotiations. Baucus said he expects to continue the talks through next week, and he has received proposed changes from the three members.

“I think he feels a great deal of pressure to move on, and I think I have to respect that pressure,” Grassley said.

In an interview, Grassley said he wanted the bill to address medical malpractice reform, among other issues. He said he would continue to negotiate but said he couldn’t say whether he would support the Baucus plan.

“What I have always said is, we have been at the table for months and months, and there has never been a harsh word — and I am going to be at the table for as long as I can be at the table,” Grassley said.

Baucus’s proposal does not include a public health insurance option but features insurance cooperatives to compete with private insurance companies. The $900 billion plan also includes a requirement that individuals have health insurance or face fines. And it includes a new tax on insurance companies that offer high-cost plans.

Despite discussion in the media about the possibility of creating a “trigger” on the creation of a public plan, Baucus said there has been no discussion of such an idea within the Gang of Six. Baucus also said he believes with “increasing conviction that a public option cannot pass the Senate.”

The plan includes several elements that appear targeted at winning support from the three Republicans and are likely to face resistance from Democratic members of the Finance Committee.

Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) said the proposal includes some elements that no Democrats have supported, including giving states the flexibility to alter Medicaid benefits and allowing insurers to sell plans across state lines.

“There is a lot in there to worry about,” Rockefeller said.



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