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Cobell judge slams MAGA lies

Initially brought in 1996 and settled in 2009, Cobell v. Salazar, previously Cobell v. Kempthorne and Cobell v. Norton and Cobell v. Babbitt, was finally decided in Cobell v. Jewell.  

After hearing the many years of testimony in Cobell, Reagan appointee Judge Royce C. Lamberth called the US Department of Interior, "a dinosaur -- the morally and culturally oblivious hand-me-down of a disgracefully racist and imperialist government that should have been buried a century ago, the pathetic outpost of the indifference and anglocentrism we thought we had left behind." Judge Lamberth was removed from the case in 2006 after years of stonewalling by the Bush II administration.

In 2010 Eloise Cobell wrote that the $3.4 billion settlement was only a fraction of what is truly owed to tribes. 

Lamberth is the longest serving US District Court Judge serving on the federal bench in DC.
Though he did not mention Trump by name, Lamberth specifically called out language used by Trump and, more recently, Trump allies like Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), describing Jan. 6 defendants as “hostages.” Lamberth issued his comments in connection with sentencing proceedings for James Little, a Jan. 6 misdemeanor defendant who has decried his case as a political prosecution and said the government is trying to suppress his free speech rights. Lamberth has handled a disproportionate share of high-profile Jan. 6 cases. Among them: Jacob Chansley, known as the QAnon Shaman; Alan Hostetter, a former police chief whom he recently sentenced to 11 years in prison; and Christopher Worrell, a Proud Boy who launched chemical spray at police officers. Chansley’s case became the subject of distortions on Fox News that have fueled further conspiracy theories about the attack on the Capitol. [‘Preposterous’: Federal judge decries efforts to downplay Jan. 6 violence, label perpetrators ‘hostages’]
Eloise Cobell walked on in 2011.

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