Comments on: Senator Cornyn Links Violence, Judges’ ‘Political Decisions’

By: Hellblazer

Hellblazer — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 02:29:41 +0000

Because the right wing loons are just like the left wing loons
But you see, this is justified terrorism. Terrorism designed to correct the vast wrongs perpetrated by Blue State politicians and their winged monkey minions. Because they love 'merica. Bracing for reaction in wake of Olympic bomber's manifestoAbort...

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 04:17:46 +0000

There is no such thing as "perception" of lack of accountability of judges. It is a fact. It is called judicial immunity. There is no law in any state or federal statute that grants a judge immunity from suit for his or her actions on the bench. However, there is a legal jurisprudence standard that grants "judicial immunity" to judges. They are immune from civil suit except for very limited circumstances. Judicial immunity is law made by judges for judges to grant judges a complete and total lack of accountability. The supreme court of the U.S. has held that even if the actions of a judge are "malicious and intentional" if they are done in the course of his duties he (or she) is immune form civil suit.

Oh, by the way, try to get a district, state or federal attorney to press charges against a judge.

Been there, done that, spent time in jail and still have to go to trial for putting in writing (in a child custody case as a pro se) the same thing that DeLay said.

Our judicial system is broken.

By: Carl Hinkle

Carl Hinkle — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:39:36 +0000

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There are liberals and Democrats outside the Beltway too....
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A preponderance of the judges on our federal bench are now Republican and Republican appointees.............let them do their job of enforcing federal law and handling constitutional issues..... in our system it is not the job of 51% Republicans to put on BROWN SHIRTS and place their thumbs on the scales of justice..........
preventing violence is what law and police are for...to give ANY APPROVAL OR COUNTENANCE to violence is to make our system not DEMOCRATIC, NOT REPUBLICAN BUT FASCIST........mr cornyn is suggesting a wink wink nudge nudge toleration of violnece as long as it is RIGHT WING VIOLENCE...what is more like fascism????

By: JunkYardBlog

JunkYardBlog — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 21:54:41 +0000

THE BLOGOSPHERE FAILS, AGAIN
The leaders of the blogosphere failed to dissect the legal and moral issues pertaining to the Terri Schiavo case over the past few weeks, a failure which allowed the legacy media's push polls and biased coverage to rule the day....

By: JunkYardBlog

JunkYardBlog — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 21:54:24 +0000

By: Hal

Hal — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:17:00 +0000

Wow. None of the recent killings of judges were, in fact, motivated by a dislike of activist judges imposing ideological biases. In two cases, you had criminal suspects shooting the judge presiding over their trial, and in the case of Joan Lefkow's family, a disgruntled individual whom she had ruled against in a malpractice case killed her family.

Cornyn just made sh*t up! And now you're following suit.

Pretty cool, James.

By: Stygius

Stygius — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 05:42:24 +0000

Cornyn. Correlation. Cause
Guys like John Cornyn keep me voting Democrat. Moderate Voice has a roundup of bloggers jumping on Cornyn's

By: wavemaker

wavemaker — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 02:17:02 +0000

In light of the timing of his comments, one might guess than Sen. Cornyn was referring at least in part to the appellate decisions refusing to come to Terri Schiavo's parents' aid. If he had that in mind in the least, his comment has no credibility with me. The District Court, the 11th Circuit and the SCOTUS showed admirable restraint, and not an ounce of activism, in their Schiavo roles.

I sympathize with the point generally, but the timing is a rather unfortunate.

By: damnum absque injuria

damnum absque injuria — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 23:38:19 +0000

Cheney Bows to the Imperial Judiciary
Via Drudge, Dick Cheney is now on the record opposing retribution against the judges who made judicial mincemeat of of the compromise bill that should have saved Terri Schiavo:

Cheney was asked about the issue on Friday by the editorial board of the...

By: JunkYardBlog

JunkYardBlog — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:25:54 +0000

By: JunkYardBlog

JunkYardBlog — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:25:46 +0000

By: JunkYardBlog

JunkYardBlog — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 21:47:44 +0000

By: BeldarBlog

BeldarBlog — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 21:29:51 +0000

Cornyn out of context
I reproduce here an email I just sent to Profs. Glenn Reynolds and Ann Althouse based on their two recent posts about Texas Senator John Cornyn's so-called

By: Anderson

Anderson — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 21:09:48 +0000

Appropriating other people's tragedies for one's own ideological obsessions is what politicians do, I guess, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

John Cornyn: ghoul.

By: Arguing with signposts...

Arguing with signposts... — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 20:36:08 +0000

Causation and correlation James Joyner notes a speech by Sen. John Cornyn that somehow attempts to link "activist judges" with recent violence against said judges. Cornyn continued: "I don't know if there is a cause-and-effect connection, but we have seen some recent episo...