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 Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:15 pm Post subject: "Activist judges" |
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Wouldn't you know it: as in so many other aspects of life, it's where you stand that affords you a particular perspective. This makes "objective judgement" a diffficult thing to achieve.
I've been waiting for someone to point out (in print) that the definition of judicial "activism" (and perhaps someone needs to define that popular term) depends on which part of the political spectrum one comes from; it has been used almost exclusively, at least for the last few years, by conservatives, to decry what they view as excessive "liberalism" on the bench.
It turns out there just may be such a thing as conservative "activism," too!
www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/opinion/19tue3.html?th&emc=th
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"Justice Sunday"
Senate leader DOCTOR Bill Frist (whose appearance, on tonight's "Let's Make Sure The Courts Toe The Conservative Line" televised pep rally, lends it the appearance of federal support) could not or would not truthfully answer a medical question put to him by George Stephanopolis:
"Has the HIV virus been transmitted by tears or sweat" (answer: it has not), a lie included in a White House-promoted sex "education" program.
"Justice Sunday". . ."God help us."
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| Quote: | | It will give you an idea of the level of Mr. Perkins's hysteria that, as reported by The American Prospect, he told a gathering in Washington this month that the judiciary poses "a greater threat to representative government" than "terrorist groups." And we all know the punishment for terrorists. |
Perhaps somebody should explain to these freaks that in the Christian religion, the cross is not normally set on fire at the meetings.
America is heading for mega-trouble.
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Irony crackles through these proceedings like the blue special-effects "electricity" seen in "Ghostbuster"-type movies:
*The "out-of-control" (ie, liberal) judiciary these self-serving "leaders" rail at is actually well right of center; a majority of judges on federal benches are Republicans and/or were appointed by Republican presidents.
*The elimination of the filibuster (the only brake presently available to prevent the ruling party's abuse of the courts for thier own purposes) is proposed ONLY for the matter of Congressional "advice and consent" of judicial nominees; it is thus a "targeted" recision of a long-standing device, used with good purpose by Congress to prevent absolute majority rule.
*Republican members of the Judiciary Committee -- Sen Orrin Hatch comes to mind -- have frequently referred to the Democrats' current efforts to block a tiny pecentage of Bush's nominees as "unprecedented," when in fact the Republicans successfully filibustered against a much larger number of Clinton's nominees, when the shoe was on the other foot, not so long ago. This instance of blatant hypocricy, not to say dishonesty, is seldom mentioned by the press, nor are the current troublemakers challenged with this piece of information.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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And:
*"Activist judges" are exactly what the foaming fomenters were hoping to find, on the Supreme Court, when the matter of Terri Schiavo was thrust at them; when the court very properly refused do deal (for the umpteenth time) with the issue, those on the court who voted against review were now "activists" !
It would seem that the translation of the word "activist," for these people, is "individual who disagrees with my ("God-given") opinion." Gay rights, women's rights, and worker's rights advocates, for instance, are "activists." But those who would lumber the schools with mandatory prayer, or the public buildings with images of the Ten Commandments. somehow aren't "activists"; they are the "oppressed." Their Bible is being "disrespected"; their marriages ae being "ruined."
What would they make of the word "proselytize"?
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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On the other hand. . .there may be some hope:
www.truthout.org/docs_2005/042405A.shtml
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| Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:46 am Post subject: |
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And so to "Justice Sunday," and Dr (?) James Dobson, of "Focus on the Family" (it never hurts to stand up for the obvious) calling the courts "unaccountable," "out of control," and a "despotic oligarchy."
Make of it what you will. . .
www.nytimes.com/2005/04/25/politics/25justice.html?
www.truthout.org/docs_2005/042505Z.shtml
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