To get an idea of the insanity in store for us if B. Hussein Obama gets to pick judges, consider some of the nutcases appointed even by Bush — terrorist-pampering U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke, for example.

Currently Judge Kook is holding up the transfer of convicted terrorist Kifah Wael Jayyousi to a maximum security unit in Terre Haute, Indiana, because his communications would be closely monitored and visitors limited. This would interfere with his ability to conduct terror operations from behind bars (à la Omar Abdel-Rahman), and — according to some of the moonbats running our legal system — violate his "rights." Why a district judge in Florida thinks she can dictate the conditions at federal prisons in Indiana is anyone's guess.

Jayyousi was convicted together with the Dirty Bomber Jose Padilla. Earlier, Judge Kook rejected prosectors' demands for harsh punishment for Padilla, and exploited the case as an opportunity to denounce his supposed harsh treatment, whimpering on his behalf that he had been held without a Koran or entertainment opportunities.

Padilla wanted to set off a radioactive bomb in an American city. But evidence of that couldn't be presented in the circus environment of a normal criminal court, probably because it was classified. The trained al Qaeda killer could be free to continue his terrorist activities in less than 13 years.

Welcome to the future of the War on Terror. Both Obama and McCain have promised to close Club Gitmo, so that all terrorists can be treated to mollycoddling at exorbitant taxpayer expense by moonbats like Judge Kook.

Hat tip: The Corner; on a tip from V the K. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.