BAGnewsNotes Getting Between The Point And The View DOUBLE TAKES BAG Categories BAGnews Cartoon (Chronological) Business Focus Campaign '04 ... Unnaturally Geographic News Op Ed Politics And War Media And Media Watch Culture Satire Commercialism Good Links Going Two Ways Apr 05, 2005 Hunt For Justice send this cartoon to a friend! Apparently, Tom DeLay is not the only one trying to scare judges these days.àAccording to Slate, now Senator John Cornyn is pushing the practice.à( Needles and Threats - link The real puzzle in all this is what the radical right has to gain in promising harm to those who wear the robes.àHere's Slate's speculation: Perhaps, now that they control Congress and the presidency, the only target left to the right-wingers really is the judiciary. They feed on outrage, after all, and that was running somewhat dry. Or perhaps they truly feel that they can't control the judicial branchâÂÂsince even staunchly Republican judges got it "wrong" in both the Schiavo cases and in Roper. In other words, it's no longer enough to pack the courts with Republican appointees; they are already packed that way. This latter fact sets up the argument that only the most extreme right-wing ideologues can ever be confirmed in the future; since even moderate Republicans are all eventually corrupted on the bench. | |
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