article_snippet.sent: he asked in the opinion joined by Judge Deborah L. Cook, also a President George W. Bush appointee.
article_snippet.sent: Critics such as Davidson have roundly condemned such reasoning.
article_snippet.sent: He's very much willing both in the result and in He analysis to leave the issue to the people without suggesting an answer one way or another," Schaerr said.
article_snippet.sent: But attached to Sutton's opinion was a harsh dissent from a third member of the three-judge panel that heard the case in the 6th Circuit.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey, a Bill Clinton appointee, dismissed Sutton's opinion as an "engrossing TED talk" and a "largely irrelevant discourse on democracy and federalism.
article_snippet.sent: Daughtrey said that Sutton failed to see the plaintiffs as individuals "suffering actual harm."
article_snippet.sent: Daughtrey harshest language was for Sutton's premise that the decision should be left to the democratic process.