Washington state judge admits to calling Mukasey a ‘tyrant.’

Think Progress » Washington state judge admits to calling Mukasey a ‘tyrant.’:

"Richard Sanders, a justice on the Washington State Supreme Court, confirmed yesterday that he called Attorney General Michael Mukasey a ‘tyrant’ at a Federalist Society dinner last week:

After listening to Mukasey defend the Bush administration’s counterterrorism policies — its detainment practices at Guantánamo Bay, its interpretation of the Geneva Conventions’ reach — Sanders stood and shouted ‘Tyrant! You are a tyrant!’

‘Frankly, everybody in the room was applauding or sometimes laughing, and I thought, ‘I’ve got to stand up and say something.’ And I did,’ Sanders told The Seattle Times Tuesday. ‘I stood up and said, ‘Tyrant,’ then I sat down again, then I left.’

Sanders said he didn’t learn until the next morning that, moments after this episode, Mukasey passed out at the podium."