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Justice Betty Weaver isn't giving up in her quest to take down Robert Young. The Free Press described a news conference Weaver held in Southfield yesterday, accompanied by Bishop Sheard of the COGIC churches:
Adding to the drama on Friday was Weaver's visit to Southfield for a news conference to let loose a rant about Young over a phone conversation he had with other justices in 2006.
Young, she said, "shows a complete disrespect for women. And a complete disrespect for all African Americans."
She was referring to Young's use of the N-word in a passing reference to a judge who was removed from office for making racist remarks and when he mimicked a "Saturday Night Live" catchphrase, "You ignorant slut."
Weaver, whose relationship with Young and other conservative justices on the court soured after she was denied a second term as chief justice, said she sent a memo to her colleagues at the time relaying her dismay at the comments and asking the justices to act with more decorum.
"Instead, it became the most disorderly, unfair and unjust place I've been since my seventh-grade chess club," she said.
Weaver was accompanied by Bishop John Sheard, the African-American pastor of more than 80 Church of God in Christ parishes in Michigan, to validate her outrage over Young's comments.
Since stepping down from the Court in August, Weaver has been travelling the state to lay out the truth of what goes on in the Michigan Supreme Court, and why Robert Young is unfit to serve. Weaver spoke at a Glenn Beck 9/12 Tea Party event in Traverse City two weeks ago, which is posted here.
Word on the street is she will be doing more events in southeast Michigan leading up to Election Day Tuesday. Stay tuned.... |
