BushCo and Friends in Judiciary

(2) out of three Judge Panel owe the Bushes
"In a major victory for President Bush, the three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said a joint resolution passed by Congress in the wake of the September 11 attacks authorized the president to use military commissions to try enemy combatants...
Judge Randolph, appointed in 1990 by the first President Bush, wrote the unanimous ruling. Concurring was Senior Judge Stephen F. Williams, a 1986 Reagan appointee, and Judge John G. Roberts, named to the bench in 2003 by the president"