RNC Chair sides with DeLay/Santorum/Cornyn on judges

[Rose Siding]

Mehlman's going with the culture vultures and against some other GOP leadership, like...oh, Frist and Cheney and Roberts

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Questioned about his remarks Tuesday, Cornyn said: "The American people have to understand how the judiciary, in some instances ... has become more of a policy-making body rather than a traditional court of law."

Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman echoed the point in an interview. He said "unelected and unaccountable judges" were taking decisions away from the American people as expressed by their elected representatives.

"I believe very strongly that one of the reasons we have ... culture wars today is because decisions that ought to be democratically made are taken out of the democratic process and instead are made by unaccountable judges," Mehlman said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2270&ncid=1278&e=6&u=/krwashbureau/20050405/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_judges_wa

[kliljedahl]

1. Like unaccountable judges

that appointed * chimperor in 2000?


http://www.kliljedahl.net

[blm]

2. That's how the founding fathers set it up, dumbass.

Not EVERYTHING should be decided just by votes because dumb and mean people can be easily persuaded and demagogued to vote in ways that can hurt others.

[madfloridian]

3. Even Cheney says DeLay's remarks inappropriate.

http://www.democrats.org/blog/comment/00011827.html#comments

Cheney: DeLay's threats inappropriate
"If you ask us, threatening federal judges is a lot worse than "inappropriate." But it's nice to see Vice President Cheney saying even that much about House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's promise that federal judges will "answer for their behavior" in the Terry Schiavo case.

Cheney's comments are a sign of the cracks that are forming in the GOP unity when it comes to Tom DeLay. With scandals piling up, DeLay needs all the support he can get. Looks like he may not have the White House behind him."

[Rose Siding]

6. So did Sens Frist and Roberts

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said Tuesday that federal judges gave the Terri Schiavo case "a fair and independent look," distancing himself from other Republicans who contend that the courts' refusal to keep the brain-damaged Florida woman alive is evidence of an out-of-control judiciary.
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Last week, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said federal judges "thumbed their nose at Congress and the president." He warned: "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today."

Other Republicans said such rhetoric was counterproductive.

"I think that's pretty dangerous ground to even think about," Sen. Pat Roberts (news, bio, voting record), R-Kan., said about comments such as Santorum's and DeLay's. "I'm not a party to that, and I think those comments are not helpful."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2270&ncid=1278&e=6&u=/krwashbureau/20050405/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_judges_wa

It's a fissure!

[Old and In the Way]

4. Sorry Ken, you must be thinking about how judgeships work in

fascist, totalitarian states. We've set up Judges to be independent of the prevailing public sentiment, otherwise we'd be burdened with activist judges who check polls before deciding cases.

But damn right you ought to be worried....when we take power again, we'll be going after the criminals who have been screwing this country blind for the last 10 years or so. You best hope you can get your cronies in before we take back the government.

[Erika]

5. Judiciary-part of the checks & balances system

Judges were never meant to be political operatives of a political party as Delay, et al want.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

7. The American people have to understand how the judiciary

in some instances ... has become more of a policy-making body rather than a traditional court of law."

It's called common law fuckhead.

[tofubo]

8. we used to be governed

by the concept of majority rules, but the minority have rights
now it is, the majority rules, the minority are screwed

[roguevalley]

9. someone needs to publish the goods on Mehlman. He's the

damned bastard I've seen in a long time. In a culture war, he's going to be among the first blasted away. He doesn't care.