Why is it that "legislating from the bench" is bad, but

ET Awful

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Mon Mar-21-05 10:43 AM
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Why is it that "legislating from the bench" is bad, but

Edited on Mon Mar-21-05 10:44 AM by ET Awful

judging from the legislature is good? There used to be a thing called separation of powers, I guess that doesn't mean anything anymore.

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bryant69

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Mon Mar-21-05 10:45 AM
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1. Well apparently Bush often says a dictatorship would be a lot easier

Maybe this is one way to go about it, getting rid of the powers held by the legislature and the bench so that he can have it all.

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tubbacheez

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Mon Mar-21-05 10:47 AM
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2. It's all just marketing spin.

When Republican activist judges make radical new interpretations of laws, they call it something else.

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