From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Or the truth hurts

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message news:441229f6$1{at}w3....
> She is a government bureaucrat and member or former member of the most
> exclusive club in country.  Her statements are what one expects from
> government bureaucrats.  She is defending their exclusive power and
> rationalizing how the sky would fall to the ground if their club members
> were held to account by the voting citizens of this country.
>
> Mark is right.  It shows she retired about 5 to 10 years to late, but then
> I'm glad she stayed on till there was Bush.
>
> Gary
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:44122816$1{at}w3....
>>
>> "Mark"  wrote in message
news:44122733{at}w3....
>>> "...we must be ever-vigilantagainst those who would strongarm the
>>> judiciary into adopting theirpreferred policies."
>>>
>>> How, pray tell, does one "strongarm" a Justice with
lifetime tenure?
>>> Better than ever that she retired.
>>>
>>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>>> news:441224a8{at}w3....
>>>>I reckon Sandra Day O'Connor won't be invited to any Whitehouse
>>>>luncheons anytime soon :-)
>>>>
http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Retired_Supreme_Court_Justice_hits_attacks_0
310.htmlVia
>>
>> It was the judiciary she was talking about. More from the link
>>
>> It gets worse, she said, noting that death threats against judges are
>> increasing. It doesn't help, she said, when a high-profile senator
>> suggests there may be a connection between violence against judges and
>> decisions that the senator disagrees with. She didn't name him, but it
>> was Texas senator John Cornyn who made that statement, after a Georgia
>> judge was murdered in the courtroom and the family of a federal judge in
>> Illinois murdered in the judge's home. O'Connor observed that there have
>> been a lot of suggestions lately for so-called judicial reforms,
>> recommendations for the massive impeachment of judges, stripping the
>> courts of jurisdiction and cutting judicial budgets to punish offending
>> judges. Any of these might be debatable, she said, as long as they are
>> not retaliation for decisions that political leaders disagree with.
>>
>>
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