Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Retiring Justice O'Connor Blasts the GOP

CBS News: Just b/c she's retiring does not mean that Justice O'Connor plans on going gentle into that dark night: Speaking in Spokane, WA, to a group of lawyers and judges, O'Connor warned that "the present climate is such that I worry about the future of the federal judiciary ... In our country today, we're seeing efforts to prevent an independent judiciary." Click here to listen to a snippet of O'Connor's speech. She blasted the very people on Capitol Hill who are cheering the loudest these days for John Roberts, Jr, as she mentioned that the concerted, focused, and malevolent political campaign by conservative leaders to try to diminish the authority (and ultimately the power) of judges across the country is dangerous, manipulative and antithetical to the healthy separation of power upon which our govt is based. Wow. A still sitting Justice gets it. She gets it when she says: that "a key concept of the rule of law is the concept of an independent judiciary." A strong judicial branch is necessary to ensure that the tyranny of the majority is limited — so that things don't "get out of kilter"... unfortunately, this staunchly Republican Justice is old school GOP- not the Neo-Con/Talibornagain variety that has a death grip on our nation- and maybe she now has buyer's remorse for allowing Bush be selected for Prez in 2000 as she now sees that the fascist floodgates have opened w/this crew of thugs.
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