And now: The Justice Department eight
In These Times
by Stephen J. Fortunato Jr.
03/20/07
An indispensable operating principle of any viable democracy is that the judicial branch of government function free from interference by the executive or the legislature. The other hallmarks of democracy — regular elections, freedom of speech and press, written laws and administrative procedures, etc. — are all hobbled, if not nullified, if judges and other judicial system officers are subject to coercion, whether direct or oblique, by external forces. Over the past decade, the focus of those defending an independent judiciary has been to publicly defend judges from the intemperate attacks of the likes of the deposed House Majority Leader, Rep. Tom Delay (R-Texas). … Less strident but more insidious than Delay’s brand of bluster, the Bush administration and its supporters, with their bizarre and dangerous notions of an imperial presidency and unitary executive, have been stacking the federal bench with judges who they believe will genuflect to their will...
http://tinyurl.com/ytoxdy
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=coercion
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Delay
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperial+presidency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unitary+executive
by Stephen J. Fortunato Jr.
03/20/07
An indispensable operating principle of any viable democracy is that the judicial branch of government function free from interference by the executive or the legislature. The other hallmarks of democracy — regular elections, freedom of speech and press, written laws and administrative procedures, etc. — are all hobbled, if not nullified, if judges and other judicial system officers are subject to coercion, whether direct or oblique, by external forces. Over the past decade, the focus of those defending an independent judiciary has been to publicly defend judges from the intemperate attacks of the likes of the deposed House Majority Leader, Rep. Tom Delay (R-Texas). … Less strident but more insidious than Delay’s brand of bluster, the Bush administration and its supporters, with their bizarre and dangerous notions of an imperial presidency and unitary executive, have been stacking the federal bench with judges who they believe will genuflect to their will...
http://tinyurl.com/ytoxdy
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=coercion
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Delay
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperial+presidency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unitary+executive
rudkla - 21. Mär, 18:13
