Our court system is under attack.
First, House Republican Majority Leader Tom Delay threatened judges involved in the Terri Schiavo case.
Texas Senator John Cornyn then suggested courthouse violence (like the tragic shooting in Atlanta of a judge by a rapist) was simply the result of legitimate frustration with liberal judges.
Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist followed all this up by taking part in an event sponsored by the religious right called “Justice Sunday.” Speakers at the event said that opposing the president’s judicial nominees was tantamount to being “against people of faith.”
Now former Republican presidential candidate and Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson has told ABC that the threat posed by liberal federal judges is "probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings."
MoveOn.org is trying to raise the cash to put a new commercial on television calling on the Republican leadership in Congress to repudiate the remarks by Robertson.
Some Republicans and leaders of the religious right have even attacked judges appointed by Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush for being too liberal. They actually believe that the conservative majority on the Supreme Court isn't conservative enough.
Does America really want a judiciary that reflects the values of DeLay, Cornyn, Frist and Roberston?
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