Steamrolling the Judiciary
Steamrolling the Judiciary
What’s a better indicator of how far out of line conservatives have become in their quest to overtake America’s judiciary?
The fact that a U.S. Supreme Court justice is warning against attacks on judges:
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said harsh political rhetoric could spur violence against the nation’s judges, offering a veiled response last night to some national figures who in the past week have blasted the courts for failing to intervene in the case of a severely brain-damaged Florida woman. [...]
“It didn’t occur to me that there would be as many threats, and I do receive them,” O’Connor said. “I don’t think the harsh rhetoric helps. I think it energizes people who are a little off base to take actions that maybe they wouldn’t otherwise take.“
…or that Rush Limbaugh of all people is saying recent conservative efforts may actually be frightening the American people:
…[I]f indeed there is — and I hope there’s not, and I don’t suspect it yet — but if there is a tendency on the part of Frist or some others to cave on the use of the nuclear option, and again this is purely hypothetical, but I think it might be because of the reaction to the judiciary following the Schiavo case and the circumstances. They might think it’s too hot out there, water’s gotten too hot, temperature is too hot, and now start appearing to ramrod presidential nominees through the confirmation process… blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, would be seen as an attempt to literally take over the judiciary, and they’ll be very sensitive to that kind of a charge.
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What, Rush. Ya think?
April 8th, 2005 at 2:36 pmRush — you’re dreaming, baby… these guys are senstive to NOTHING.
The good news? They are apparently completely oblivious to the damage they are doing to their own party. Keep it up, Tom DeLay.
Hark, I hear the sound of 2006…
April 8th, 2005 at 3:09 pmThis is the sort of thing that rubs me the wrong way. Why complain about conservatives’ attempts to stack the courts at this point?
If you wanted to complain about the Conservatives and the Judicial Branch of government why in the hay didn’t you do it when the Supreme Court illegally selected Bush over Gore who actually won the election?
It seems to me you are acting just like the rightwing when you put this sort of thing in your blog, you hope to get the rank and file democrats active and keep us that way.
I’m willing to be active but at this point its a little late. Why should I get all excited about what the republicans are doing when there shouldn’t even be a republican in the White House if Democrats actually stood for anything opposing republicans you would have helped the rank and file stop the Supreme Court coup which we wanted to do.
April 8th, 2005 at 4:26 pmBarbara- where were you that you missed the complaints about Bush v. Gore? There were there. Unfortunately, the Republicans don’t allow us to live in the past- we’re too busy trying to keep them from fucking things up in the present.
April 8th, 2005 at 5:08 pmPlease review pages 78-79 of the GOP 2004 RNC platform. There in bold text is the intent to take on the judiciary and reshape it in all possible ways to one that obeys their commands. Rush chose to use the word “cave” as a dysphemism, suggesting that the Repugnicans need to keep pursuing their agenda.
April 8th, 2005 at 5:27 pmThey would rein in Delay if they wanted to. They are using him to test the waters and if the water is warm, they’ll all jump in.
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October 6th, 2005 at 7:50 am