This is outrageous!

Cheyenne County District Judge Kristine Cecava in Sydney, Nebraska has handed out a sentence of 10 years of probation to child molester Richard Thompsonbecause at 5′1″ he is too short for prison. Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning has vowed to appeal the sentence as soon as possible. Hopefully the appeals court does the right thing and puts this slimeball in prison. Height should have nothing to do with it, the only thing that matters is the crime he commited, which should put him in prison. If you are that worried about his safety in prison then put him in solitary, but personally I’m more worried about what he could possibly do on the outside of the prison walls, rather than what happens to him while he’s on the inside.
Robert Schwartz thinks the judge should serve the prison sentence, I would have to agree. This judge is criminally negligent.

White House lawyer Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed as a federal appeals judge after waiting for 3 years. Democrats have opposed his confirmation because of his conservative philosophy, but the 7 Democrats in the “Gang of 14″ agreed
not to filibuster if there was a Second Judiciary Committee hearing.

This is good news, we need good constitutionalist judges in our courts. Hopefully we can get some more of the judicial nominees confirmed that have been waiting. One has to wonder however if this push on nominees is a play by the Senate for conservative votes this November.

Update:  Allah Pundit has links to the roll:

Byrd, Carper, Landrieu, and Nelson from Nebraska voted with the GOP to confirm. Otherwise it was party line.