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Friday, January 21, 2005

This is one of the arguments that I have against the current fashion of railing against “activist judges”…and the resulting push to limit judicial power. Judicial power is the one branch of government that the current majority party does not have a lock-hold on. I don’t think it’s an accident that they are fermenting a grass-roots push to “limit” the discretion of “activist judges”.

There’s only so much they can do with regards to judicial appointments. Even many partisan judges have found it necessary to occasionally serve the law above their political ideology. They're just not reliable enough…

But suppose we could get the “will of the people” behind a set of laws that made the judiciary make the decisions that the administration and their allies want them to make? Hmmm…

Sure, it would be nice to have a justice system that was always fast, clean, and 100% just…but while the appearance of unwavering consistency might be comforting for some…it’s not necessarily justice.

Friday, January 21, 2005 7:44:42 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00) | Comments [2] | Political

Friday, January 21, 2005 3:02:19 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Since when is the Justice system or the judiciary branch about justice? Just because it's based on the same root word and all.

Okay, I think this is one of the best decisions by the judiciary in quite some time. Congress has no more business deciding what punishments are just for individual crimes than they do setting foreign policy or commanding the military. It amuses me when the GOP and it's minions who claim to follow only the wisdom of the Founding Fathers discard it whenever it doesn't meet their current agenda. Congress has no more right to limit the judiciary than it does to eliminate the presidency.

The Evil Cub

Monday, January 24, 2005 1:13:53 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Besides, who's going to save us from the tyranny of the majority?

dracut

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