Thompson v. Winnick

*395 OPINION AND ORDER

LYNCH, District Judge.

The use of the courts as a weapon in political rivalries has a sufficiently long pedigree in the United States that it can be regarded as almost customary, but it is a sorry custom indeed, and one that, as Hamlet says, is “more honored in the breach than the observance.”1 In this action, each party accuses the other of seeking relief in this Court not in good faith but for political reasons. Adopting the sentiment, if not the vehemence, of another Shakespearean character,2 the Court declines the invitation to adjudicate what is essentially a political…