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April 29, 2006

OFF-TOPIC: O'Connor Decries Republican Attacks on Courts

I found the following very scary post on the Information Clearinghouse entitled O'Connor Decries Republican Attacks on Courts. It is a transcript of a Nina Totenberg quote from a speech Sandra Day O'Connor gave recently. After talking about the implicit connections between statements by right-wing Senators that undermine judicial authority and both death threats and actual violence against Federal judges, O'Connor said:

Pointing to the experiences of developing countries and former communist countries where interference with an independent judiciary has allowed dictatorship to flourish, O’Connor said we must be ever-vigilant against those who would strongarm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, she said, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings.

This from a Reagan-appointed Supreme Court Justice (now ex) who was then pretty conservative. That was when "conservative" meant people who still believed in a democratic republic. Now, sad to say, it stands for fascism bordering on dictatorship.

When will we, the American people, wake up? Are we in some kind of "information paralysis" now that we can know just about everything about just about anything? If we can try to impeach a President for having an illicit affair with an adult staffer (and I was in favor of impeachment then, on moral grounds), why aren't we impeaching a President who has trampled on human and civil rights in an egregious fashion?

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