Judge Booted From Indian Trust Case

With the news that an appeals court has ordered that federal judge Royce Lamberth be removed from the long-running Indian trust fund case, we might actually see a resolution of the dispute sometime soon. It had become clear that a major impediment to progress in the case was Lamberth himself, and his vituperative criticism of the Interior Department--which he once called "the morally and culturally oblivious hand-me-down of a disgracefully racist and imperialist government that should have been buried a century ago."