Race Radio said:
it appears these lawmakers are unaware that a Federal Judge ruled that the WADA code gives Armstrong ample due process.
No I dispute that. Sparks essential comment was it was a civil process which Armstrong had voluntarily agreed to enter, so that providing they stuck to the rules he was powerless to intervene until and if Armstrong had exhausted the process and could demonstrate they had not followed their obligations as laid down in their rulebooks, and that those failures had infringed his rights.
(eg if WADA failed to exercise statute of limitations per rule book. and Armstrong appealed that in CAS and failed, then he could return to Sparks or similar court to prove that. Same as Heras challenged on a different matter in spain for example)
He did not say the process was good or ample, indeed, he slammed the charging letter, and expressed some distaste over the process, actually commenting on possible wrong motivations by USADA for pursuing it, and criticised the apparently indeterminate jurisdictions, but as judgement he did not consider he had the right or power to intervene in a civil matter until and if the process so defined had been exhausted and Armstrong could prove in hindsight that as a result his rights had been infringed.
In essence he was stating his court becomes the court of last resort, not the first - since only then in hindsight could anyone determine whether that process had actually infringed armstrongs rights. Sparks certainly did not give the process a clean bill of health, or vouch for it.