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kerry-is-my-prez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:03 PM
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Cafferty talking about Gonzales telling Judges what to do.....
Just sickening. If there's not more evidence that is needed to see that we are living in a fascist state. Thank you Justice O'Conner & team for bringing us and your fellow judges this:


http://scotus.tribe.net/thread/98f2cc7f-e5d9-45c6-96fb-8521a28436d3
Here's a good article about the issue:

Gonzales Cautions Judges on Interfering
Friday 29 September 2006

Washington - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who is defending President Bush's anti-terrorism tactics in multiple court battles, said Friday that federal judges should not substitute their personal views for the president's judgments in wartime.

He said the Constitution makes the president commander in chief and the Supreme Court has long recognized the president's pre-eminent role in foreign affairs. "The Constitution, by contrast, provides the courts with relatively few tools to superintend military and foreign policy decisions, especially during wartime," the attorney general told a conference on the judiciary at Georgetown University Law Center.

"Judges must resist the temptation to supplement those tools based on their own personal views about the wisdom of the policies under review," Gonzales said.

And he said the independence of federal judges, who are appointed for life, "has never meant, and should never mean, that judges or their decisions should be immune" from public criticism.
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