] The problem, as the legal battle over Terri Schiavo
] demonstrated, is that whatever their politics, judges are
] unlikely to ignore the law. In that case, the law clearly
] did not authorize federal judges to order Schiavo's
] feeding tube reinserted %u2014 but some Republicans are
] outraged that the judges did not have it reinserted
] anyway. On Wednesday, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay
] instructed the Judiciary Committee to investigate federal
] court decisions in the Schiavo case.
]
]
] The attack on the judges who refused to order the feeding
] tube reinserted may be trivial by itself. But it is of a
] piece with something much more important. In recent
] years, some conservative politicians have been insisting
] that federal judges should strike down affirmative action
] programs, protect commercial advertising, invalidate
] environmental regulations, allow the president to do
] whatever he likes in the war on terrorism, use the
] Constitution to produce tort reform, invalidate gun
] control regulation, invalidate campaign finance laws and
] much more %u2014 regardless of whether they can find
] solid justification for these steps in our founding
] document. [ But they hate activist judges... don't they? Huh? Oh, only liberals can be activists? Ahhh, I see now. -k] |
