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Judge Karen Henderson dissents from Brett Kavanaugh's decision favoring CIA

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Jefferson Morley
Jul 12, 2018
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Judge Karen Henderson

Judge Karen Henderson, JFK dissenter Click for here Judge Brett Kavanaugh's July 9 decision in Morley v CIA, Morley v CIA is a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking release of certain CIA files related to the assassination of President John F Kennedy in November 1963. in his last decision before being nominated by President Trump to serve on the Supreme Court, Kavanaugh ruled in favor of the CIA. Judge Karen Henderson, first appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan, dissented: KAREN LECRAFT HENDERSON, Circuit Judge, dissenting: Over the past 15 years, we have remanded this case four times. During the same period, we have reversed the same district court twice in a nearly identical Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case. That makes six opinions from this court. I share the majority’s displeasure with the resulting waste of judicial resources, especially because “fee litigation [is] one of the last things lawyers and judges should be spending their time on.…

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