Stephen Markman, MI Chief Judge might be a good candidate for Director of FBI
Posted on | May 17, 2017 | No Comments
Some populist/nationalist-leaning attorneys, however, are suggesting Stephen Markman, the four times re-elected Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. “Unlike the top contenders, Markman is clearly in sync with the Trump/Sessions agenda,” a Washington-based conservative lawyer with ties to the DOJ transition told Breitbart News.
Markman’s history with Sessions runs deep. During the Reagan administration, he headed the DOJ’s Office of Legal Policy, which made the recommendation to President Ronald Reagan to nominate Jeff Sessions for a federal judgeship in 1986. Later, the two men would serve as fellow United States Attorneys — Sessions for the Southern District of Alabama, Markman for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Markman wrote a scathing dissent from a 2011 Michigan Supreme Court decision that held illegal aliens could be considered a “vulnerable victim” class. The majority, which included Justice Robert Young, now on Trump’s “short list” for the U.S. Supreme Court, held that criminals who victimized illegals could be sentenced more harshly than those who harmed American citizens, because illegal aliens, due to their own crimes, would be reluctant to go to the police. The majority refused even to use the term “illegal alien” as Markman did, preferring the academic and media left’s “undocumented.”
Ann Coulter, star conservative author and Michigan-trained attorney, was superlative in her support. “Stephen Markman is brilliant, honest, and principled. He knows the law, and law enforcement, inside and out,” she told Breitbart News.
“He clearly understands the ways of Washington, but is not part of the swamp,” Coulter said of Markman’s long career in government, “Only a man of total integrity can have that many jobs in the govt — as a true conservative — without even the hint of scandal and with the respect of liberals and democrats.”
“If Trump wants to make lemonade out of lemons, he will nominate Markman to replace the inept Comey,” Coulter said.
“Trump owes Michigan, which is icing on the cake,” Coulter added.
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